This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GREEN, OSTRANDER, TRAVER, SEELY, LATHROP Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TZ.2ADE/4842.2.1.1.1.3.1 Message Board Post: Hi again Judy - You know we have to be some kind of cousin, don't you? Probably several times over. My ggrandparents in Dutchess Co. NY were Francis Green and Catherine Traver. Catherine's brother was Ludlow Traver, who married Carrie Bouton. My ggrandparents in Fairfield Co. CT were Jacob W. Ostrander and Sarah E. Seely. The Seelys were also original Stamford settlers and are intermarried with all the rest of those early families. My Green grandmother married my Ostrander grandfather in Norwalk in 1894. What drew the Greens to Connecticut in 1887 is one of my big puzzles. Traver family history is long in NY and Francis was an immigrant. I keep finding connections between my Greens and these old CT families, so wonder if the answer is there somewhere. Am also trying to find links to my grandmother's first husband, Robert Lathrop. He was in Stamford, then NYC after he split with my grandmother. Some kind of big upheaval happend after the Greens came to Norwalk. Loreen