My name is Nicole Boyd-Avery and I am researching the maternal side of my family, which is Boyd. The information that I have is as follows:
Gilbert Boyd born 1839 in christian co., ky (my great great great grandfather)
Ellen Boyd born 1837 in christian co., ky
They had 6 children from this marriage 3 boys and 3 girls:
Allen Boyd born 1856 in christian co., ky
George Boyd born 1859 in christian co., ky
Sallie Boyd born 1861 in christian co. ky
Sarah Boyd born 1863 in christian co., ky
John Boyd born 1866 in christian co., ky (my great great grandfather)
Cora Boyd born 1868 in christian co., ky
I am really looking for anyone who are descendents to this family. I have been searching for 3 years looking up my family tree. If you are related to me please contact me as soon as possible.
Hi Nicole
Can you post a link of a public profile in your tree? The oldest Boyd would you have. That way I can see if there's any path between that profile and me, which might offer a clue.
See "how to tag a profile" here if you're not sure how to do this:
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You are great! You mastered tagging. OK now let me take a look.
I descend from the fun Lord Boyd here:
Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock
So my mission would be to connect your Gilbert with his enjoyable great ? grandfather ... if he is.
wow!!! You can do that!!! That would be great if you could do that!!! Well from what information i have found, it has been very limited. It would be amazing if we had some form of lineage between you and I. We are having a family reunion this year in new jersey and I am in charge of gathering all the information concerning the Boyd Family. So i am desperate for information concerning my family.
There are a couple of soldier Boyds - thought they could be brothers of your Gilbert as its the same age range / geography. I attached records to his profile. Study them, perhaps, and think about whether they are clues or not, because we're trying to take it back a generation on census reports, and often sibling names can lead the way.
Geni is amazing. It's really frustrating to try and connect to the big tree -- it took me months -- but once I did, I could go back to mythological times. Blew me away.
You know where your hard part is. But Hopkinville KY is *also* a big clue because it's only 30,000 now and it was tiny in origin. So read up on the history of it; maybe they have some genealogical societies etc. It's been a while since I did that reading but KY archives do a really good job.
I started with Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopkinsville,_Kentucky