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for House of Boyd
Cal Boyd has retired as Genealogist for the House of Boyd Society.
He had served in this capacity since the early 1990s. He created and maintained the database of the
membership's genealogies. This position is now open. Interested members should contact the Executive Board. Our Historian is being responsive to questions until such time as we fill this important position. Responses may be delayed due to schedules and committments.
About the House of Boyd
Society Database
Members are welcome to contact usfor a form in order
to submit their genealogies to the database. We cannot stress
enough how much this may help your search. If you do not
submit your data sheet for the database, you may miss connecting
with your cousins when they join the Society. Not all of
our members are online. Each time we enter a record to
our database, it is cross checked against all the previous
entries. This means that each time a member submits their
data, it is compared with your data to see if there is a
match. Contact us if you have questions genealogist@clanboyd.org
About Privacy Issues
You can rest assured that we respect your right to privacy.
We NEVER send a member's data to others, we put
the parties in touch with each other so they can exchange
the data they feel comfortable about exchanging. This also
leaves you in control of being certain that your most recent
data is supplied and you can set the parameters for copyrights,
etc. in your exchange.
Internet Uploads
The House of Boyd Society will never upload your submitted
data to a website or a surname list. This is something you
may do for yourself and remain in control of what is released.
There are several sites at which you can do this. No need
to have a third party do it for you. Remain in control of
your data on the Internet. Most sites have a search engine
that enables folks to connect with your data on the site
even though it seems to be in its own file and not connected
with a larger body of genealogies.
Here are a couple of links:
Rootsweb's
World Connect Project Connecting the world one GEDCOM
at a time
World
Family Tree
Genealogical Queries
We will be happy to respond to your queries. We ask
that you submit them in the following manner. In the subject
line put: Query: [type your ancestor's name]. List dates
as 3 March 2000, not 3/2/00. Do not abbreviate. Give as
much background as possible, including the dates and locations
you have for the events. Be sure to sign your name and give
your member number if you have one.
Submission of Queries
for printing in the Dean Road
Editor@clanboyd.org is the address to direct your queries for printing
in our quarterly newsletter, the Dean Road ISSN#1087-223X.
We ask that you submit them in the following manner. In
the subject line put 'Dean Road Query: type your ancestor's
name'. List dates as 3 March 2000, not 3/2/00. Do not
abbreviate, we will do that for you. Give as much background
as possible, including the dates and locations you have
for the events. Be sure to sign your name, include your
regular mailing address and give your member number if you
have one. Submissions are not limited to members only, nor is there ever a charge for printing your query in the Dean Road.
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Clan List at Rootsweb
In the early 1990s, a small group of Boyds were visiting with
each other at the Clan Tent at the Grandfather Mountain Highland
Gathering and Games. This group included Dr. William Barneyback
(then President), his wife Marianna Barneyback, Marilyn DeReggi
(then Secretary), her mother Jeannette Boyd and sister Virginia
Boyd Rogers, Grover Gore (former Executive Board Member), his
daughter Alison Gore Wikle (then Treasurer), and James Green.
This group decided that it would be a wonderful idea to use an
email mailing list as a place for all Boyds to gather and discuss
their genealogy and the family history. It was decided to keep
the list 'open' and not limit it to House of Boyd members only.
So, to this day, the Boyd-L mailing list (as it has come to be
known) has welcomed all those interested in the Boyd Clan Family
History, and in researching their own Boyd family tree.
The process was begun and the list was formed. At first it was
managed by an individual who received the emails in his personal
email mailbox and forwarded copies to everybody on the list. It
soon became too large and was moved to a mailing list server.
As time has passed we have moved the list a few times, until most
recently settling at Rootsweb.
We owe thanks to all those who created this list and those that
have helped to keep it going. We owe a debt of gratitude to all
of those mentioned above, and also those that did the work to
keep it going -- thanks again Sam Boyd, James Green III, David
Hamiter, Margaret Olson and Lauren Boyd!
The mailing list can help with researching your family tree, will
give news about Highland Games, and generally provide a forum
talk with other Boyds about 'Boyd' topics. Note that you do NOT
need to be a member of the House of Boyd Society to join our mailing
list. Click the button below to create an email message that will
subscribe you to the list.
The mailing list can also be received in digest mode, where several
postings are combined and sent to you together as a single large
message. To join the mailing list in digest mode, click the button
below.
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Research Assistance
Assisting our members (and other Boyds too) with their family
research is one of the main aims for the existence of the House
of Boyd Society. There are several ways that we do this.
Our Genealogist uses software for storing and searching Boyd genealogies.
On joining the Society you are invited to send your genealogy
to us. When your genealogy is entered into our database, any
matches with other genealogies in the database are automatically
highlighted. Our genealogist will then try and put you in touch
with those who share this common link, so that you can exchange
information.
The Boyd mailing list can put you in touch with House of Boyd
Society members, and other Boyds, who use the Internet. You can
use the list to ask questions regarding your own research, about
research methods and sources, and get lots of other information
which is posted to the list.
In a similar way, our new web forums on this website can put you
in touch with others involved with research on the Internet. House
of Boyd members have private areas inside the forums which cannot
be read or posted to by non-members.
We understand that research can be a lonely and isolated activity.
Wherever possible, we encourage our members to attend Highland
Games and Gatherings, and to help out whenever there is a Boyd
tent at these events. This activity not only helps encourage others
into genealogy and to join the House of Boyd, but it gives a very
welcome social side to research. You will meet many others doing
research and be able to have friendly chats about your research
and their research. To a certain extent, our Boyd mailing list
and our web forums also give the opportunity for social contact
and friendships.
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