Photos and research

Tom and Maggie Hull
The Hull Hillfoot Farm House in about 1950
Dan at the PRONI
The wall around Londonderry. This wall was constructed by Peter Benson and is the wall referred to in the song "There is a Green Hill far away without a city wall. It was written by a local Irish lady

We have been home for a couple of weeks now and everything is a little boring compared to the trip but we must go on.
I have put together a pretty good photo show of the trip and started to digest all of the information. I am glad we have prenty of modern conveniences such as digital cameras, computers and scanners that help me keep track of everything. I am going to visit with Robert Parker and his wife Debi tomorrow to try to finalize some of the webpage structure and uploading so that we can get everything we collected made available to all that want it.
After reviewing the former way our ancestors used to collect and share information the new ways make it more simple.
The DNA study group has received two of the three DNA test kits so that will be fun to follow and hopefully with the contacts we made on the trip we can go forward to learn more about our family history and those who still live in Ireland, Scotland and England. I am enclosing a couple of pictures from our trip. The first picture is of Tom and Maggie Hull, the last residents of the Hillfoot farm in Dungiven, Northern Ireland. They are brother and sister. The second is an old photo of the Hillfoot farm aback in the lat 1940's early 50's. The third is a picture of me standing in front of the PRONI in Belfast, Ireland. This library is the main research library in Northern Ireland. The last is a picture of the part of the wall that is around Londonderry and was built by Peter Benson, the ancestor of Mary Benson, the wife of Thomas Hull II. Dan