John HYLAND born circa 1830's married Urquhart? Shaw? MacQueen? Dwyer? circa 1850's. Coming here to the US settled in McLean Co IL USA circa 1860. Eldest daughter Elizabeth born 1860. Anyone know this family. They also had 5 other children including my Great-Grandmother Mary married Millard Filmore COLEMAN my dads' grandfather. Thank you so much in advance. Was said John born Dublin? Mary born Scotland?

Coleen -- A terrific way to find specific information on your families is to contact the county historical society in the USA county in which your family lived for a period of time, offer them a donation for their help in locating wills, land records, other court records, b/m/d extracts, marriage applications (sometimes with info. on parents of the bride and groom!), cemetery records, newspaper clippings, etc., etc. I have done this inexpensively and with great success with some of my families who lived in a particular USA county for several years. These historical society members are very interested in, knowledgeable about, "their" county's history and resources. You can also subscribe to their interesting county history publications with an every-name index in their winter issues. If you ask them for help, they can check all their old issues for instances of your surnames. They also have access to old maps with names of homesteaders. Moreover, they can provide you with the names of published works on county history, the Civil War, etc., they believe to be especially useful to researchers. To my surprise, and because they were early settlers, I found two pages on one of my humble farmer families in an old IN county history book in my local library. Following families on serial USA Federal Censuses provides researchers with much information. The 1930 USA Federal Census often provides more specifics on where each individual was born and where each parent was born than in past census years. Jean xx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Coleen Coleman" <wyoeagle@webtv.net> To: <IRISH-IN-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 2:26 PM Subject: [UK-Irish] HYLAND > John HYLAND born circa 1830's married > Urquhart? Shaw? MacQueen? Dwyer? > circa 1850's. Coming here to the US > settled in McLean Co IL USA circa > 1860. Eldest daughter Elizabeth born > 1860. Anyone know this family. They > also had 5 other children including my > Great-Grandmother Mary married > Millard Filmore COLEMAN my dads' > grandfather. Thank you so much in > advance. Was said John born Dublin? > Mary born Scotland? >