Daniel McMullen b. 1725

Hi Emily,

Thank you very much for your message. I hope that someone who recognises Daniel makes a connection with you and helps you to further your research.

Unfortunately, given the early year of birth it may be difficult to find records over here as the reality of finding documentation pertaining to births/baptisms/marriages/deaths in Ireland prior to 1800 ? particularly in rural areas ? is that they simply may not exist. As you can see on the IRish Times website, Catholic records in Ballymoney do not start until the middle of the 19th century:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Antrim&parish=Ballymoney&churchid=395

Church of Ireland records generally tend to have an earlier start date as this was the official church of the country at the time. Most surviving Church of Ireland records are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. Here are their websites: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/ and http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42

Lists of these surviving registers can also be found at the National Library of Ireland.

Some other websites that you may find useful are:

The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx

The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/

The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm

Family Search: www.familysearch.org

Ireland Gen Projects: http://www.igp-web.com/antrim/

Genealogy links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/antrim/index.html

Ballymoney Ancestry: http://www.ballymoneyancestry.com/

Irish Genealogy Tool-kit: http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/index.html

Please be patient - as our programme has only begun to rollout across the island of Ireland and volunteers in some areas may not yet be organized.

Kind regards,    

Genealogy Support