Hi Ron, Check out our webpages at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~merle . The purpose is to help you do this research. You don't have much information to help someone else, who has already done the research, to connect to you. Plus, if no one has researched the family then unless you do DNA testing of all the Hamilitons in Ulster, you or someone has to do the research. This sucks -- it's my situation too. A zillion years of trolling on the Internet did not produce many cousins who had the answer. So I had to learn to do it. Really important for you do do besides buying some books on Irish genealogy and reading them is to study the free courses on immigration reserach at htt://genealogy.com/university.html . You also need to keep in mind that research in Ireland before church records (aboue 1825 or so) is considered IMPOSSIBLE (unless your ancestors include the Earl of Antrim <grin>). This is because Irish genealogical courses address themselves to the majority of Irish peole who were poor Catholics. It is not impossible to trace many Protestants, but it's DURN HARD. So we gotta learn a lot and get lucky as well. As you say you have done a bangup job on the US side, the course above will teach y ou to utilize that info to forward your Irish research. Watching Profiler on TV will help too. I'm serious. Profiling these folks WORKS. When you go to do Scottish genealogy, you will have to learn how to do it. Scottish records are different from Irish and the situation in both countries are different from the USA. Anytime you change the country or the time (19th century research is different from 18th, because the records are different), you must learn what is different as well as standard methodologies known to all who study that will result in success. Often amateurs don't bother to learn what these standard methodologies are so of course they don't have a lot of success any more than a carpenter cna succeed at brain surgery without additional training. Luckily thee are plenty of good books on h ow to do this research now. Didn't used to be that way. Best of luck! Linda Merle ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: VistaRon96@aol.com Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:51:50 EDT >Greetings List, >I am looking for a needle in a haystack. >unknown HAMILTON born ca. 1800 Scotland, emigrated to Ireland, married an >unknown Irish woman. They're son John (William) was born in 1831, Unknown, >Ireland. He married 21 Mar 1858 in Jamestown, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA. He is my >G-Grandfather. I know everything after that. >Any help with information in Ireland and Scotland would be greatly >appreciated. > >Ron HABEL >Vista, CA, USA > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net