Randy Bruyere's Posts - The Wild Geese2024-03-29T08:42:38ZRandy Bruyerehttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/RandyBruyerehttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57439680?profile=original&xn_version=202403260758&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1&xj_user_default=1https://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blog/feed?user=3max4p19rl8j6&xn_auth=noThe Twists and Turns of My Search for Kinney Ancestorstag:thewildgeese.irish,2018-10-03:6442157:BlogPost:2355002018-10-03T10:30:00.000ZRandy Bruyerehttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/RandyBruyere
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1227621697?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1227621697?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200"></img></a> A</span> quick intro on research for my Irish roots:</strong></p>
<p><span>As a child, my mother always told me that her father said his mother was from Ireland; he (my grandfather) never told my mom her name, birthplace in Ireland, age or anything else: All he told my mom was where she was buried. When I went to the cemetery, she was…</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1227621697?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="200" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1227621697?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200" class="align-left"/></a>A</span> quick intro on research for my Irish roots:</strong></p>
<p><span>As a child, my mother always told me that her father said his mother was from Ireland; he (my grandfather) never told my mom her name, birthplace in Ireland, age or anything else: All he told my mom was where she was buried. When I went to the cemetery, she was not there.</span><br/> <br/> <span>I checked the census records and only found her on the 1910-1940 in Buffalo, New York.</span><br/> <br/> <span>With the census records, I tried to find other records and nothing panned out, so I decided on posting my little bit of information that I had;</span><br/> <br/> <span>My grandfather was Charles Bowers, born 1908 in Buffalo, N.Y., and his parents were Charles Sr. and wife was Rose, unknown from Ireland. Any help is greatly appreciated.</span><br/> <br/> <span>While searching the census records, I found that there was a Cyrenus Walker living / visiting my g-grandfather and a daughter named Rose Cyrenus. Thinking that was them, I traced their heritage back to Ireland and was so happy, I told my mom. After putting it on Ancestry.com, and a year later, I received a message from another Walker telling me that I had the wrong Cyrenus and Rose in my tree as they had documents on their Walker family and Rose did not marry Charles.</span><br/> <br/> <span>Back to research; In New York state, you have to wait 100 years for a birth certificate of a deceased person unless you are a child of the deceased. I asked my mom to send off for my grandfather's birth certificate -- she did. I contacted Orchard Park, New York, and they told me that they had no such record; my mom swore that he was from there because her grandfather said he was: oops, wrong information. My grandfather was RAISED there. Back to trying to find his birth location. . . . I tried the next logical place, Buffalo; BINGO: there it was and coming in the mail!!!!</span><br/> <br/> <span>After receiving the birth registry, I showed my mom and went online looking for sites that assisted in researching Irish roots. I went to a site, posted my findings, asking for assistance: They told me that I would have to wait for the administrator to return as she was at PRONI getting records for other people.</span><br/> <br/> <span>When she returned, the people on that site told me she had returned but give her a few days to respond; I waited.</span><br/> <br/> <span>The admin responded that she would be going back to PRONI that week and will look for my Rose Kinney, born about 1880 from unknown place in Ireland; on my grandfather's birth certificate, all it said was Rosanne Kinney, 1880, Ireland.</span><br/> <br/> <span>On her return, she told me she had found a Rose Kinney, but born 1873. On one census record, it said she was born about 1875, so that had to be her. They sent me the record and I asked them if there were any Kinney members in the area where they lived (the admin and such -- they responded no but they would ask a friend who knows a lot of people).</span><br/> <br/> <span>The admin's friend asked around and a week later, he got this response..."I asked a few people and I was told a friend of a friend knows a friend whose mother was a Kinney." WOWOW!!!</span><br/> <br/> <span>So they asked him if they could ask their friend's friends if they know anything about a Rose Kinney that migrated to America and married a Charles Bowers.</span><br/> <br/> <span>This person told the friend to tell the admin that they did have a Rose that left Ireland and married a Charles Bowers, as they had met their grandfather's sisters g-grandchildren years ago (over 20) and their g-gma passed the story to the sister's granddaughter, who had the information here in the U.S.A. . . . Whew!!!!!</span><br/> <br/> <span>The son of a Kinney mother told them to give me their information in Ireland to call them, and a week later, I received the number.</span><br/> <br/> <span>Connection was established and proved!!!!!!!</span><br/> <br/> <span>I went to Ireland with my mother, and mom cried because she was so happy her father was right!!!</span><br/> <br/> <span>ERIN GO BRAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></p>