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A brief history of Traynors settling in Wisconsin.
My cousin Margaret has a web page that tells a little about the Treanors who emigrated to Canada in 1849 and came down to the US, Michigan and Buffalo. The link is http://www.treanors.net.
My first exposure to genealogy was as a young boy in the 60’s rifling through leftover papers in boxes in the attic of our home. I came across a notebook of my grandmother’s research into family history of my ancestors, Traynors, Connellans, Grogans and Knowltons. My father’s untimely death when I was ten made the idea of reconnecting to my ancestors even more intriguing.
My aunt, Sister Dean Traynor, PhD, RSCJ, continued to supplement our family history up to the 1990s, and providing information about my oldest known male ancestor, Thomas (Myles?) Traynor of Eshnaglogh, Monaghan.
In the early 2000s I stumbled across the home page of Patrick Traynor Jr (FTDNA N3722) on Angelfire at http://www.angelfire.com/my/tray/ and became fascinated with learning more about our family.
When I learned about-DNA testing, I took every test I could find to learn more but the problem was always the same. Not enough detail, and too few participants. Now, with the Big-Y test, we’ve begun to address the problem of detail, but we will always value more participants.
John, the Angelfire site is amazing; almost too much to wrap one’s brain around. Thanks so much for posting it here (I will continue delving into it) and for all your YDNA work.–Bill Trainer
In the late 1990’s I was deep into my Trainor tree and writing letters to various leads including to John and Margaret Treanor in Drumdart, Co. Monaghan. I exchanged email msgs with the late Alan Beagan, a relative of the Rarutragh Trainor clan in hopes of connecting his Owen Traynor to my Owen Traynor but we couldn’t find that elusive link. . In 2019, I few to Dublin, and chaperoned by Noel Treanor of Dublin, I met John and Margaret Treanor on their plot in Drumdart. They showed me the very spot my GGGrandparents, Owen Traynor and Margaret Monaghan had lived on in 1842 prior to leaving for PEI. The current owners, the Clerkins, had a photo of the original house my GGG’s lived in. Thank goodness for smart phones with cameras. John produced the loooong letter I had mailed them back in 1998. As John exclaimed, “The circle is now complete.”