Boyd Robinson
Rating (average)
(9)
Types of Lookups
Online Sources
County/Region
USA
Brief Directory Description
Specialize in hard to locate ancestors in the 1700 to current time period in the United States
Volunteer Research Description

If you have hit "the wall" on a specific ancestor in the 1700 to current time period, then give me a shot at ferreting out information about that ancestor. I don't travel so there are no expenses. I have access to a wide variety of online resources. You will need to initially provide basic information about the ancestor in question. Later, I will ask for detailed information including descendants and family lore. Mysteries and enigmas are my specialty.

Contact Email
Country
United States Volunteers
State
Pennsylvania

Ratings

Boyd was instrumental in locating ancestors our family has been unable to locate for years. He is professional and quick to respond to so many question I had. I highly recommend him.

Shelley Horton | October 19, 2021

Boyd has been unbelievably helpful in my search. First of all, I submitted a request and heard back from him immediately. I was amazed by how quickly he\'s responded to every communication. I\'ve been at a dead end in one branch of my family tree and haven\'t been able to discover much. While it hasn\'t been the break through I\'ve wanted yet, Boyd has provided several pieces of documentation that I had never seen in my research and he has kept digging to uncover the information I\'m seeking. Hopefully, he\'ll discover it, but whether he does or not, he\'s been extremely helpful, responsive, and tenacious in his efforts.

Steve Bryant | March 3, 2020

2017/10/25 at 3:00 pm
In August, Boyd kindly agreed to take on a challenge I had been grappling with for quite a while. I was trying to figure out which of two dates, 1852 or 1864, was correct concerning my great great grandfather immigration to Baltimore. In spite of a sincere effort, he was unable to find any direct evidence for either date.

He did, however, find several articles in German newspapers from Baltimore that mentioned my ancestor’s name. Neither he nor I could read the articles in Fraktur German. It took quite a while to find someone who could translate them for me. I just got the results back, and guess what! The obituary Boyd found for me said that my ancestor had immigrated 28 years before his death, so that told me that the 1864 date was correct. As you can imagine, I was very excited with this breakthrough after years of trying to solve the puzzle.

The articles also gave me a new and unexpected glimpse into another aspect of my ancestor’s life. I had no idea that my great great grandfather was politically active, but he was very much so being the president of the German American Democrats in Baltimore for years.

Boyd’s work was very valuable in helping me solve a problem and in adding new information.

Joanne Albright | April 25, 2019

I’m so grateful to have contacted Boyd! He was able to find an article that greatly helped me and he found it the first day of contacting him. Keep in mind I had been searching for 20 years! So excited to continue my search based on this new info! Thanks Boyd

Stephanie Clark | August 29, 2018

Boyd is a great resource! I have been looking for a bit of information for some time with no luck. Since he had been so helpful with a brick wall about a year ago, I got in touch with him again and explained what I was trying to find. That was on Friday afternoon. When I awoke on Saturday morning, he had emailed me the document that had eluded me. And he also sent some additional related pieces that he had come across. Now, this is even more impressive than it might sound because the information was in a German newspaper, he doesn’t speak German!

Joanne | August 5, 2018

Boyd is a great resource! I have been looking for a bit of information for some time with no luck. Since he had been so helpful with a brick wall about a year ago, I got in touch with him again and explained what I was trying to find. That was on Friday afternoon. When I awoke on Saturday morning, he had emailed me the document that had eluded me. And he also sent some additional related pieces that he had come across. Now, this is even more impressive than it might sound because the information was in a German newspaper, he doesn’t speak German!

Joanne | July 31, 2018

I just recently stumbled across RAGK. What a great concept! Boyd was the first volunteer that I contacted. What a good choice! He responded promptly and got right to work on my question. He even had the courtesy to let me know when he had an unexpected trip out of town, so that I wouldn’t think he had forgotten me.
Boyd searched for the information I asked him to look for, and also passed on some German newspaper articles about my ancestor that I didn’t know existed. I appreciate his efforts on my behalf and will definitely take advantage of the wonderful volunteer services of RAGK in the future.

Joanne | September 12, 2017

7 stars

Amna Baloosh | July 3, 2016

Boyd has a tenacity that is nothing short of amazing. He has shed light on an entire branch of our tree for which very little was known, specifically ancestors that lived in Alaska during the Gold Rush, a challenging area of research due to the huge, transient population of this time/place. Boyd has located a wide array of documentation that traces our family's movements including (but not limited to) census reports, boat passage records, and obscure newspaper pieces. He has been able to "bring family to life" with these very specific findings.

Boyd was also able to locate a second, more recent branch of our tree, the details of which were virtually completely unknown to us. Starting with family rumor and a name, he quickly identified and expanded my husband's paternal line.

Boyd has been an absolutely invaluable resource in our family tree project.

KTeske | June 16, 2016
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