Patrick Trainer, Burial Location Solved!
For many years, there was a great debate amongst family members, particularly the genealogists in the family as to where Patrick Trainer was buried. Some, such as Opal Danner plan to visit Jackson, Ohio to tease this out. Unfortunately, she was never able to make that trip.
None of the research that people made revealed a cemetery that he could have been buried at. The Trainer family did not have a lot of money, nor did they have a great deal of resources or prestige in the community. Patrick was a laborer in the coal mines. His health after the Civil War was not good. … Read the rest
A pretty common mistake beginning and amateur genealogists make is the “click & add” method of tree construction–especially when confronted by source confirmed information. This can include birth and death dates, children and spouses of a family member, or even adding a non-relative with an identical name. Ancestry.com makes this ever so easy! What inevitably happens is that other Ancestry members find this incorrect info–and copy it to their trees as well. Let’s call these folks ‘Tree Parrots.’
Patrick Trainer
In the several decades now that I have been trying to dig out my Irish ancestry via the internet–and pin down immigrant 
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