Hill Family

Hi

Thank you for your message. Do you have any additional information regarding this family's emigration which may assist others in furthering your search?

Do you know the family's religion? 

Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most 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. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/.  The Anglican Record Project is has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf

Presbyterian registers are held in three main locations: in local custody, in the Public Records of Northern Ireland (PRONI) http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm and at the Presbyterian Historical Society http://www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com in Belfast. PRONI has microfilm copies of almost all registers in Northern Ireland and also lists of records held by the Presbyterian Historical Society. For the rest of Ireland, almost all records are in local custody. It can difficult to locate these as many congregations in the South have moved, amalgamated, or simply disappeared over the last sixty years.

Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is - http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/ - where you can ?browse? an overview of available records per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possible assistance.

Some resources/sites which may be of use to you are: 

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

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

British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093

Remember to post as much information as you can with regard to the people you are researching. The more information you post, the more likely it is that one of our volunteers will be able to advise or assist you. Also include information concerning which sources you may have already used so others may further your search.

Kind regards,                    

Genealogy Support 

Thank you for your reply to my inquiry. Sorry that I left out their religion. The family was Presbyterian.  There are many descandents of this family in the U.S., but we don't have any additional information of them in Ireland or immigration than what I posted early.

There is a family website that a cousin developed online, which can be found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~evanshistory/Hill/AHILL210.html but we don't know where to find the family in Ireland.

Knowing that they were Presbyterian, will it help us when researching Ireland records on PRONI?  I get so lost on that website and can't find any records on it. Is that because there are not any records online and we need to do the research in Belfast?

Thanks again for the info.

Cindy