Yes I have tried several like: IRELAND- ROOTS@rootsweb.com IRELAND@rootsweb.com IRELAND-GENWEB@rootsweb.com That is where I got the information that the census was not available until 1901 as most were destroyed. Unable to determine if Thomas and Catherine Hyland were his parents.

Coleen Coleman wrote: > Yes I have tried several like: IRELAND- ROOTS@rootsweb.com > IRELAND@rootsweb.com IRELAND-GENWEB@rootsweb.com Try: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Newsgroup_Gateways/GENIRE.html http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Newsgroup_Gateways/GENBRIT.html > That is where I got the information that the census was not > available until 1901 as most were destroyed. They were destroyed because the instructions stated they weren't to be made available to the "idle curious" - or so the story goes. > Unable to determine if Thomas and Catherine Hyland were his > parents. You may never be able to. I've had to give up on two Irish born ancestors. I know the father of one but not the mother. The other one ought to have been easier but wasn't. Both were from Co Cork. That's as much as I know and, short of a miracle, is likely to be all I'll know. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/