This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McConnell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DVz.2ACEB/707.772.1 Message Board Post: Is this Newburgh in Orange County, NY? If so, then I think that I have run across them when looking at McConnell family records there. I am from a McConnell family that was in the US well before 1860, but I did collect a couple of bits of information on a non-native family in Orange County just in case there was a link.