This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeC.2ACI/539.540.542.602.605 Message Board Post: I don't know what "far back" Burnside you descend from, but my husband's family comes from Ireland, we think. James b. 1812 d. 1846), who m. Mary Wilkin (1816-1865) is our connection. His siblings John?( or Joseph) who died around 1820; Robert b 1811 in Co. Tyrone, Ireland and died in 1884 in Monmouth, IL.(m. Margaret McAdams); Margaret who died 1873 in Washington Co., Iowa, m. __?__ Hanlon. Do we connect somewhere?