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Gateway to the West
The two volume book Gateway to the West. Ruth Bowers and Anita Short compiled this book from over 350 articles that originally appeared in the Gateway to the West periodical, published in Ohio from 1967 to 1978.
The Gateway to the West periodical offered a wide variety of important genealogical source materials, many of which would have otherwise been difficult for the average individual to access. Those materials included marriage records, indexes to estates, will abstracts, death, cemetery, and divorce records, indenture and apprenticeship records, baptisms, land grants, ministers' licenses, minute books of courts, deed abstracts, partition records, guardianships, and naturalization records. The majority of these materials cover the years 1800 to 1850 and are from seventy-six of Ohio's eighty-eight counties.
What you can learn about each listed individual varies, depending on the article. Invariably, the information will help you locate a particular individual at a specific place and point in time. Learning a location, and date from these records may help you find your ancestor in other genealogical records not necessarily included in this collection. In some cases, particularly when your ancestor's name appears in a marriage record, will, or deed, you will also be able to establish family relationships.
Also note that if you do find one of your ancestors among these records, it is likely that you will find a connection to a family line from the thirteen original colonies. This is because the Ohio area was one of the first to be settled north of the Mason-Dixon line and west of the thirteen original colonies. There is also the convenience of a name index spanning both volumes. These volumes can be found at many libraries with genealogical collections, and also can be obtained through the LDS Family History Library...see sources below.
Boyd/Boyde listed in the Gateway to the West:
Vol I - Index
Abraham Boyd
Ann
Boyd
Caroline
Boyd
Catharine
Boyd
Daniel
Boyd
Eliza
Boyd
Frederick
Boyd
George
Boyd
Ibby
Boyd
James
Boyd
John
Boyd
Jonathan
Boyd
Malinda
Boyd
Margaret
Boyd
Matilda
Boyd
Melinda
Boyd
Nancy
Boyd
Nicholas
Boyd
Peter
Boyd
Polly
Boyd
Rhoda
Boyd
Robert
Boyd
Roorland
Boyd
Sally
Boyd
Samuel
Boyd
Thomas
Boyd
Thomas M.
Boyd
Vincent
Boyd
William
Boyde
William Jr
Boyds
in Volume 2
Agnes Boyd
Amsy P.Boyd
Andred
Boyd
Andrew
Boyd
Anna
Boyd
Archibald
Boyd
Betsy
Boyd
Daniel
Boyd
Emily
Boyd
Emily G.
Boyd
George
Boyd
H.
Boyd
Huldah
Boyd
J.
J. Boyd,
James
Boyd
Jane
Boyd
John
Boyd
John J.
Boyd
John
N. Boyd
Jonathan
Boyd
Joseph
Boyd
Margaret
Boyd
Nancy
Boyd
Robert
Boyd
Robt.
Boyd
Sary
Boyd
Thomas
Boyd
Wiley
Boyd
Peter P.
Boyde
Source: Gateway to the West; 2 Volumes; Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Publishing Co; c1989
ISBN/ISSN: 080631236X
FHL US/CAN Book: Call # 977.1 D25g 1989
NOTE:
Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary
source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts
in original sources.
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primary and secondary sources and the importance of checking those
sources. Accept nothing without further checking. It is our hope
that through this collection of data from many sources, you will
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