This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/4dW.2ACEB/1319.2 Message Board Post: I am researching Thomas and John Flynn, parents originally from Ireland, who were born in Dumfries. Possibly other siblings also. Any connection?

About a year or so ago we had a discussion and vote on whether to have Flynn message board messages come directly to the list and after a close vote I initiated the action to have the messages board messages post directly to the Flynn list. I have waited a year and have seen, as the year went by, the posts to the list from the list's subscribers dwindle to almost nothing so that now the only posts to the list come from the message board which is not how I envisioned this list when I started admining it a few years ago. So I decided to stop the messages from automatically posting to the list. They will come to me first, and then I will forward them to our list. We have 150 subscribers to the Flynn list and most have not been heard from so I will not initate a get-to-know one another exercise...let's start a kinda roll call but centered around 'what do I need to do next'...give some of your data (not too little but certainly not to long or it won't get read)...I will start with my Flynn's in another post to the list. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA, list admin http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton

My ggrandmother, Bridget Flynn b ca 1850, emigrated to Troy NY in the 1860-70s. So far, I have found her older brother Hugh and was able to find that he was born in County Leix/Laois before emigrating first to Orange County NY and then to Troy NY. Through death certificates for both, I found their parents were John and Bridget Flynn. While I have found a number of Flynns in Troy, I haven't as yet been able to link them with proof with Bridget and Hugh, nor have I found their parents (with proof) in the USA. Last November I was in Dublin at the National Archives searching through County Leix church records looking for Hugh and Bridget's births. Before going to Ireland I searched the Griffith's Valuation on Otherdays.com and found where most of the Flynns were located in the county because I only had two days in Dublin to do my Flynn research. Well, I didn't find them. So now I am back home and wondering what to do next on this side of the pond. I recently found a cousin, a descendent of Hugh, but she had less info than I on the family. I am open to suggestions. What do you think my next research actions should be with this family? -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton