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20180419 HAv-
February 6, 2018
You
Dear Patrick,
I grew up in Coudersport, PA. I do not know the identity of my biological father. I would really appreciate it if you would share your lineage back even just a couple generations, which would apparently already reveal how we are related. Unfortunately, until I can figure this out, I don't have much to share on that side of my parentage but I am open to sharing what I've got.
Sincerely, Mike
April 8, 2018
Patrick Egan
Dear Mike,
My mother and her mother and father and most of my relatives are from Maine, upstate NY. I asked my mom, who is 83, and she told me we have no known relatives from the Pennsylvania area. My father met my mom while both were in the Air Force in 1961. My father retired from the AF in 1964. They divorced soon after I was born and I did not reconnect with him until I was stationed in Germany in 1992. So technically I had a step father growing up and did not know my father until 2006 when we finally met in Florida. All my fathers side of the family including his father and mother came from Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico. Of course, both sides of the family are Irish and would have immigrated over in the late 1800-early 1900's from Ireland. Let me know if you have more specific questions and I will try to answer if I can.
I can relate to not knowing your biological dad as I did not know my real dad for over forty years.
Sincerely,
Pat Egan
April 9, 2018
You
Thank you, Patrick.
What is your biological grandfather’s name, if you don’t mind my asking? Because the strength of our connection suggests that we are related through his father.
Irish names keep popping up, mainly
Daugherty/ Dougherty and variants, but also
Campbell
Chittester
Perry
Baughman
My mother was from upstate NY, Allegany in Cattaraugus County, did a year of college at Fredonia State, in Chautauqua, NY in 1947
Thank you so much for sharing.
Mike
April 10, 2018
Patrick Egan
Patrick Lawrence Egan/Great Grandfather
James Patrick Egan, Sr./ Grandfather
James Patrick Egan, Jr./ Father
Reading grandparents obits from grandmothers side, she was born in Falls Creek, PA. (two hrs from where you grew up) then moved to WY. I see a Doney as her maiden name. I finally found the Harmon relation in the same obits. I show a Harmon with more percentage of DNA and they say it would be a first cousin. I did not grow up knowing any Harmons as cousins, but now I see it could very well be on my grandmothers side.
Not sure if this helps any, but I was surprised of the PA connection on the grandmothers side. I have never met these grandparents.
Patrick
April 11, 2018
You
Wow! YES, it does. Falls Creek, PA shows up a lot, and I have the Doney line sorted, sort of. I can't wait to get back to my tree (on taxes right now) - Do you procrastinate such things, do at the last moment? - to see if this narrows it down. I mean, great grandfather- Your great grandfather could be ... mine!
Thank you so much for writing back.
Are you 'James Patrick III'?
Mike
Patrick Egan
Doing my taxes this weekend. I don't want the govt getting what I owe any earlier then I have to give it up. So I do suppose that procrastination between us is a commonality.
No, I don't think it would be my great grandfather, but it may be my grandmothers (Helen D Egan (Doney))father, grandfather or even great grand father. I only have the info from the obit. Her father was named Samuel F. Doney. I don't have her mother's name. They left Falls Creek and moved to Lovell, Wyoming where she married my grand father in 1922. there is no mention of my grandparents going back to PA. Only to Wy, Montana, FL then back to Montana.
My great grandparents had my grandfather born in Butte, Montana. I also noticed that in my grandfathers obit they say he was married to a Helena A. Doney, but her obit shows Helen D. (Doney) Egan.
I think tracing the Doney tree may give you better results.
Patrick Egan
No, I am not a James Patrick, I am a PatricK Michael.
Patrick Egan
Check this coincidence out. Samuel F. Doney's birthdate was 23 Mar 1870, birthplace Reynoldsville, PA. He died 31 Dec 1959 in Billings, Montana and was buried in Lovell Cemetery, WY. So it appears he followed his daughter to Billings in the fifties. Surprisingly was buried in the same town that the family moved too from PA before my grandmother met my grandfather in Lovell, WY. I also have an Ancestry .com account so I was checking names.
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DNA 23andMeW Egan, Patrick Michael 2ndcuz 20180419 HAv-
February 6, 2018
You
Dear Patrick,
I grew up in Coudersport, PA. I do not know the identity of my biological father. I would really appreciate it if you would share your lineage back even just a couple generations, which would apparently already reveal how we are related. Unfortunately, until I can figure this out, I don't have much… |
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