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I'm looking for my family in Ireland. I want to know past and present family members. My ggg grandfather was Robert Boyd born in 1831 married Mary Jane Preston in 1851. Left Ireland in 1852 with their first child settled in Tecumesh Michigan. Please I have searched everything I could find. Been doing it for 5 years. I want my mother and my children to know some of my family from there. Any help at all would be great. Please Pleas Please.

Answer 1

Here is the information I found off of ancestry.com

1860 United States Federal Census Record
about Robert Boyd
Name: Robert Boyd
Age in 1860: 30
Birth Year: abt 1830
BirthPlace: Ireland
Home in 1860: Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan
Gender: Male
Post Office: Tecumseh
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members: Name Age
Robert Boyd 30
Mary Boyd 30
Alfred Boyd 5
Eliza Boyd 2
Emma Boyd 9.12

I was unable to find the immigration records on the Boyd family. But I will continue to look.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Hey Morgan,

Here is some help. You will need to go through these web sites, and do some research on your own too. The Family Search on LDS will help some. Get Birth and Death certificates for every family member you know about. You write to the State, City, Town records - you can get them on the web - sites see below.

The LDS I mentioned already. Ellis Island is very useful to trace the journey, ship, manifest, passengers traveling with, and actual registration in the US. Cindi's list is a list of lists - very good indeed.

Try to find the Obituaries for your deceased relatives - they always mention who survived them, dates, parents, etc. Very useful.

I searched for Robert at the LDS site, set his birth year as criteria and came up with HUNDREDS of hits. You should find him there, to start. I found that there are family trees already done. I found William BOYD (AFN:1RDJ-7L0) Born: 1794 and if you click on the linke, you will find more!!! If you post your email in the response - I will begin a correspondence - Boyd is one of my ancestoral names too.


Look here:

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Robert BOYD (AFN: 1RDJ-7PL) Pedigree
Sex: M Family

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Event(s):
Birth: Jan 1831
, Antrim, , Ireland

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Parents:
Father: William BOYD (AFN: 1RDJ-7L0) Family
Mother: Jane PRESTON (AFN: 1RDJ-7M6)



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Wow - there is a GEDCOM standard family genealogy file here too!!!!!!

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Husband's Name
William BOYD (AFN:1RDJ-7L0) Pedigree

Born: 1794 Place:
Christened: 26 May 1794 Place: , Carmoney, Antrim, Ireland
Died: 27 Mar 1867 Place: , Lenawee, Mi
Buried: Place: , Lenawee, Mi
Married: Nov 1850 Place: , Antrim, , Ireland

Father:
Mother:

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Wife's Name
Jane PRESTON (AFN:1RDJ-7M6) Pedigree

Born: Abt. 1829 Place: <, Antrim, , Ireland>
Died: 28 Sep 1875 Place: , Lenawee, Mi
Buried: Place: North Adrian, Lenawee, Mi
Married: Nov 1850 Place: , Antrim, , Ireland

Father:
Mother:

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Children

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1. Sex Name
M Robert BOYD (AFN:1RDJ-7PL) Pedigree

Born: Jan 1831 Place: , Antrim, , Ireland

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2. Sex Name
M Alexander BOYD (AFN:1RDJ-K9T) Pedigree

Born: Abt. 1851 Place: <, Antrim, , Ireland>
Died: 1901 Place:

Answer 4

Both surnames are english so you they would have had very little ancestry in Ireland. Also very few marrage\birth\death records have survived from that time, (straight after The Famine).
Try http://www.ucd.ie/historyarchives/index.html, maybe give them a call.
Go néirigh an bóthar leat!
(Good luck)