This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DONOVAN Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wJT.2ACEB/658.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a similar story on my Donovan family. A Bernard Donovan was separated from his brothers in NY. Bernard was born about 1833. Not sure of when they came to US. He married a Mary Ann Mackin in Schenectady, NY and moved with the railroad to MO then to IA where he died in 1898. Do you have any reference to this person? Thanks,