This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wJT.2ACEB/659.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Unfortunately, I don' t know. My Irish so far as I know have all been southerners (Wexford, Waterford).I don' t know that my Donovans are. Here's what I know. I know that James and Ellen's first two children, William H. Donovan and Thomas F. Donovan, are born in New York state, 1855 and 1857 respectively. James then takes the family to Virginia (Norfolk area presumedly as his obit was copied to there) where Mary (my gg grandmother) was born April 1861. From there to Indiana and from there to Macon Missouri. I know that WH's wife's family was from Buffalo, NY so there may be a connection location wise there. Maybe we'll be able to make a connection