Loretta, if you are back into the 1700s in Country Tyrone, you are doing amazingly well. I have mine in Tyrone back only to 1837, then only one ancestor, and, although I know his parents' names from his baptismal record, I don't know their dates or any other information. About the only way I've found to get the names of the mothers is from death information of the fathers, and then only in the USA, at least so far. Usually death certificates list parents' names, although if you get too far back all you might get is the mother's first name, not first and maiden surname. I am not saying to give up...but sometimes...you have to wait and hope that eventually something will turn up on LDS or some other searchable site. My ancestors who came to the USA left no trace of information about their ancestors in Co. Tyrone or anyplace else in Ireland, Scotland or England. Once again, I wish somebody had had a surname like "XARTXOZ" to make searching easier. Good luck with your search! Marilyn (Searching for Armstrong, McCoy, Milligan, Field, Fields in Termonmaguirk, Co. Tyrone and anyplace else they might show up) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loretta" <lynneage@house-of-lynn.com> To: "'Pat O'Neill'" <patoneill@bigpond.com>; <CoTyroneIreland-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] searching for family > Pat, I have had very similar thoughts. I think what folks like you and I > have to do is pay a professional researcher to scour every Tyrone record > there is and, failing that, every other Ulster record in the world. But > that would take no small fortune. > > All I know is that my ancestor Hugh Linn or Lynn was born SOMETIME in 1753 > SOMEWHERE in Ulster but probably Tyrone since the woman he married was > from > Tyrone. What I would love to do is get some male Linns and Lynns who live > in Tyrone today to do a Y-DNA study since my brother has already done so. > Of course, if we did find a match, we'd have to hope the person already > knows his ancestry. > > I wonder if many or any folks in Ireland in that day and age kept family > Bibles. I have a good bit of German ancestry also, and many German > settlers > in America kept family Bibles. > > Loretta > > -----Original Message----- > From: cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Pat O'Neill > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:45 PM > To: CoTyroneIreland-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CoTyIre] searching for family > > > Searching for grandmothers and the like is a wonderful merry-go-round, > isn't > it? But it's weird ! It defies logic. > > On LDS BMD you put in your grandfather's name and date of birth and place > of birth and it gives your grandfather's birth date and place of birth and > dates . but it doesn't tell you who he married. If you sign on for the > paid searches, you have to tell them names and places and guess at the > dates, before it will tell you the names and places and confirm the dates > > If you send into Proni or Dublin then the form has to be filled in with > the > names and the places before they can tell you the names and the places. > > At least with LDS if you can search through all of it over and over and > maybe you can guess at the possible connections but that is using up my > old > age. Maybe I'll meet them first and ask them - unless someone has a beter > idea . . . Pat > > > > ------------- > Our community web-site: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Would this be the Tyrone or Antrim XARTXOZ's?? Marilyn Otterson wrote: > Loretta, if you are back into the 1700s in Country Tyrone, you are doing > amazingly well. I have mine in Tyrone back only to 1837, then only one > ancestor, and, although I know his parents' names from his baptismal record, > I don't know their dates or any other information. > > About the only way I've found to get the names of the mothers is from death > information of the fathers, and then only in the USA, at least so far. > Usually death certificates list parents' names, although if you get too far > back all you might get is the mother's first name, not first and maiden > surname. > > I am not saying to give up...but sometimes...you have to wait and hope that > eventually something will turn up on LDS or some other searchable site. My > ancestors who came to the USA left no trace of information about their > ancestors in Co. Tyrone or anyplace else in Ireland, Scotland or England. > Once again, I wish somebody had had a surname like "XARTXOZ" to make > searching easier. Good luck with your search! > > Marilyn > (Searching for Armstrong, McCoy, Milligan, Field, Fields in Termonmaguirk, > Co. Tyrone and anyplace else they might show up) > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Loretta" <lynneage@house-of-lynn.com> > To: "'Pat O'Neill'" <patoneill@bigpond.com>; > <CoTyroneIreland-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 6:36 AM > Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] searching for family > > > >> Pat, I have had very similar thoughts. I think what folks like you and I >> have to do is pay a professional researcher to scour every Tyrone record >> there is and, failing that, every other Ulster record in the world. But >> that would take no small fortune. >> >> All I know is that my ancestor Hugh Linn or Lynn was born SOMETIME in 1753 >> SOMEWHERE in Ulster but probably Tyrone since the woman he married was >> from >> Tyrone. What I would love to do is get some male Linns and Lynns who live >> in Tyrone today to do a Y-DNA study since my brother has already done so. >> Of course, if we did find a match, we'd have to hope the person already >> knows his ancestry. >> >> I wonder if many or any folks in Ireland in that day and age kept family >> Bibles. I have a good bit of German ancestry also, and many German >> settlers >> in America kept family Bibles. >> >> Loretta >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Pat O'Neill >> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:45 PM >> To: CoTyroneIreland-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [CoTyIre] searching for family >> >> >> Searching for grandmothers and the like is a wonderful merry-go-round, >> isn't >> it? But it's weird ! It defies logic. >> >> On LDS BMD you put in your grandfather's name and date of birth and place >> of birth and it gives your grandfather's birth date and place of birth and >> dates . but it doesn't tell you who he married. If you sign on for the >> paid searches, you have to tell them names and places and guess at the >> dates, before it will tell you the names and places and confirm the dates >> >> If you send into Proni or Dublin then the form has to be filled in with >> the >> names and the places before they can tell you the names and the places. >> >> At least with LDS if you can search through all of it over and over and >> maybe you can guess at the possible connections but that is using up my >> old >> age. Maybe I'll meet them first and ask them - unless someone has a beter >> idea . . . Pat >> >> >> >> ------------- >> Our community web-site: >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 090331-0, 31/03/2009 > Tested on: 01/04/2009 12:37:37 > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > >

Thank you, Marilyn, for the input and you, Dave, for the chuckle. I have to confess that I did not get back to 1753 through my own research per se, except through the discovery of one book. In 1905, Dr. George Wilds Linn, great-grandson of my 1753 Hugh Linn, published the family's history as told to him by his grandfather, Hugh Linn II, who was a boy when the family emigrated. It is sad that so little remains of early Ulster records of a genealogical nature. Loretta -----Original Message----- From: Marilyn Otterson [mailto:rosiedoggie@myfairpoint.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 07:34 AM To: Loretta Cc: CoTyroneIreland-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] searching for family Loretta, if you are back into the 1700s in Country Tyrone, you are doing amazingly well. I have mine in Tyrone back only to 1837, then only one ancestor, and, although I know his parents' names from his baptismal record, I don't know their dates or any other information. About the only way I've found to get the names of the mothers is from death information of the fathers, and then only in the USA, at least so far. Usually death certificates list parents' names, although if you get too far back all you might get is the mother's first name, not first and maiden surname. I am not saying to give up...but sometimes...you have to wait and hope that eventually something will turn up on LDS or some other searchable site. My ancestors who came to the USA left no trace of information about their ancestors in Co. Tyrone or anyplace else in Ireland, Scotland or England. Once again, I wish somebody had had a surname like "XARTXOZ" to make searching easier. Good luck with your search! Marilyn (Searching for Armstrong, McCoy, Milligan, Field, Fields in Termonmaguirk, Co. Tyrone and anyplace else they might show up) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loretta" <lynneage@house-of-lynn.com> To: "'Pat O'Neill'" <patoneill@bigpond.com>; <CoTyroneIreland-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] searching for family > Pat, I have had very similar thoughts. I think what folks like you > and I have to do is pay a professional researcher to scour every > Tyrone record there is and, failing that, every other Ulster record in > the world. But that would take no small fortune. > > All I know is that my ancestor Hugh Linn or Lynn was born SOMETIME in > 1753 SOMEWHERE in Ulster but probably Tyrone since the woman he > married was from Tyrone. What I would love to do is get some male > Linns and Lynns who live in Tyrone today to do a Y-DNA study since my > brother has already done so. Of course, if we did find a match, we'd > have to hope the person already knows his ancestry. > > I wonder if many or any folks in Ireland in that day and age kept > family Bibles. I have a good bit of German ancestry also, and many > German settlers in America kept family Bibles. > > Loretta > > -----Original Message----- > From: cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Pat O'Neill > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:45 PM > To: CoTyroneIreland-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CoTyIre] searching for family > > > Searching for grandmothers and the like is a wonderful merry-go-round, > isn't > it? But it's weird ! It defies logic. > > On LDS BMD you put in your grandfather's name and date of birth and > place of birth and it gives your grandfather's birth date and place of > birth and dates . but it doesn't tell you who he married. If you > sign on for the paid searches, you have to tell them names and places > and guess at the dates, before it will tell you the names and places > and confirm the dates > > If you send into Proni or Dublin then the form has to be filled in > with > the > names and the places before they can tell you the names and the places. > > At least with LDS if you can search through all of it over and over > and maybe you can guess at the possible connections but that is using > up my old age. Maybe I'll meet them first and ask them - unless > someone has a beter idea . . . Pat > > > > ------------- > Our community web-site: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >