This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DONOVAN GLEASON O'BRIEN DWYER CALLAHAN McGUIRE COSTELLO RYAN BURKE CAREY JACOBS CONWAY HEDERMAN MURRAY SVECAR AZZARO WHITE GILLESPIE O'MALLEY CAREY HENDRICH LYNCH POULTON ACKERMAN HAGMAN KELLERMAN Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wJT.2ACEB/666.2 Message Board Post: Dear Jim, You have provided some fascinating details. My brother Steve Donovan and I are putting a book together on our Donovan line. With the help of this message board and libraries we have been in contact with new found descendents of John Donovan. We have recently obtained earlier genealogies that were put together by Donovan Jacobs in 1924. Another report put together in the 1970's by Rosemary Azzaro and yet another from Marilyn Meyers in 1980's (grandchildren & great-granchilden of John). We have also been aided by new found cousins Maureen Atwood & Sheila Stewart. With all of the recent information and the hundreds of new documents, we might be close to finding out who John's parents were. Perhaps his brothers too and any sisters that might have existed. We have alot of the same first names in our line as well. My GGG-GF John Donovan was born in 1815 he married Hannah (Hanarah-some say Hanora) Sweeney, born 1821 in Ireland. We presume Skibbereen but must first confirm. Two of their children were born in NY in 1844 & 1846 (we are confirming the name of the cities-Lockport or Buffalo). The other children were born in McHenry County, IL. The names their children are: Michael, Catherine, Edith, Frances"Fannie", Hannah, John Francis, Margaret, Mary Ann & Patrick. John and "Hannah"'s grandchildren by son Michael are: John, Timothy, Edmond "Edward", William, Raymond, Mary, Ruth, Benjamin, Alphonse aka Michael/Albert & Frank "Francis". *Edmond & Raymond were twins. Most of these children went by their middle names to make it all the more confusing. Some of the confirmed descendent surnames through son Michael & wife Catherine (Gleason) Donovan that we are also researching are: GLEASON O'BRIEN DWYER CALLAHAN McGUIRE COSTELLO RYAN BURKE CAREY JACOBS CONWAY HEDERMAN MURRAY SVECAR AZZARO WHITE GILLESPIE O'MALLEY CAREY HENDRICH LYNCH POULTON ACKERMAN HAGMAN & KELLERMAN. We hope to have all this new information compiled soon. We would still love to hear from others that might be a linked or might have further information on the parents of John or his brothers. Please email me @ 115104.2031@compuserve.com Thanks again!