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I have heard from cousins on a couple of my lines recently.

Over the past month I have heard from relatives of my mothers grandmother, Della Blair Medford. This Blair line had been mostly unknown until I heard from two different cousins with their own lines. One is sharing photos which I will be posting over the coming days to the database at Boyd-Family.net.

Today brought this photo to my Facebook page…

Along with the photo came this note:

Hi Gary, My daddy Larry Jack Boyd, and Aunt Betty Jo Boyd “Deanhart” or not in this picture they where both at work.
This is a picture of my Dad’s family I’ll start from top left. Willie Dempsy Boyd, Ruby Irean Boyd “Edwards”, (My Grannie) Minnie Irene Lieble “Boyd”, (My Papa) Jodie Richard Boyd, Minny Beathce Boyd “King”, Curtis Albert Boyd, Eula May Boyd “Bradford”, Richard Dougals Boyd, Jodie Lewis Boyd, Bobby Joe Boyd, Mary Jewel Boyd “Simpson”. – Sandy More

Picasa is one of the most popular online photo publishing services available. However, it has always been a place to publish your photos for others to see. Now Google (the owners of Picasa) have introduced Collaborative Picasa Web Albums. Every album on Picasa Web Albums is potentially collaborative: multiple people can add pictures to the same album.

You can now create a Picasa account and then your, your siblings, your cousins, and others can upload pictures to the same albums. This should be a great method of sharing family photos, whether they be from the late 1800s or from last week's family reunion.

via Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter: Collaborative Picasa Web Albums.

The whole reason I set this site up in the new format last fall was because it would be easier to update…Since then life happened and I just realized I haven’t. Updated the data that is. So today I did…Update that is.

Now, unfortunately, that doesn’t mean everything is up to date…No, that would be too easy. My Ancestry.com subscription makes it easy to do research…But hard to move the data from the internets to my database. So in the process of chasing some families online I have yet to put the data into my Legacy database so it can be moved here. Bear with me. It’ll happen.

Anyhow, the site is now as up to date as my database is. I’ll try to make a note to update it more often…

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