04 Dec 2009 | FTDNA Announces Holiday Season DNA Testing Promotion: From Dan Hull, Administrator, Hull Genetic Genealogy Project – Family Tree DNA is offering special pricing for the holiday season:

• Y-DNA37 – promotional price $119 (reg. price $149)
• Y-DNA67 – promotional price $199 (reg. price $238)
• mtDNAPlus – promotional price $119 (reg. price $149)

These are the best prices, marker for marker, of any company in the market. You may order the special Holiday promotion here. The prices for each has been discounted.

Since this promotion will run through the end of December, I encourage you to spread the word starting now, as the natural tendency is for people to order at the last minute, and FTDNA will not extend it beyond that month.

Thank you for your continued support. I and the DNA Project Committee look forward to the sustained growth of Hulls in the Hull DNA Project and in the Family Tree DNA matching database.

   23 Nov 2009 | Hull, Holl, & Hohl Federal Land Patents and Homestead Land – Post 1800 – Rectangular Survey Land: From Phyllis Hughes, HFA Genealogist – I am currently inputting into the HFA database the Hulls, Holls, and Hohls who acquired Federal land patents and homestead land in states where the rectangular survey real estate was granted. The General Land Office issued more than 2 million patents that passed evidence of title to individual parcels of public land. Some patentees bought their land for cash, others homesteaded a claim, and still others came into ownership via one of the many donation acts that Congress passed to transfer public lands to private ownership. The grants include the first land-owners in these particular states:

AL, AR, CO, FL, IA, ID, IL, IN, LA, MI, MN, MO, MS, NE, NM, OH, OK, SD, TX, UT, WA, and WI

Thus far I have input Hull/Holl/Hohl land in approximately 130 counties, but this project is not yet completed. I am willing to send out by e-mail to our HFA members my family group sheets, one at a time, showing these land grants and the date of the grant(s), if you request a specific name, which cites specific information, e.g., John Hull, b. ca. 1840, m. Mary Smith; land in Peoria Co., IL.

I am finding that some of these Hulls filed for patents and homesteads in counties other than where they appear in census records. In some cases, two generations of a specific family have been issued these land patents. This compilation also includes names of women who patented land. Contact me at:

   08 Sep 2009 | Attendee List Updated: From 2009 Reunion Hosts Dan and Linda Hull – The attendee list for this year’s reunion has been updated. We have 34 members and fellow travelers signed up so far.

   25 Aug 2009 | Patron Members: From Bob Rees, HFA Membership Secretary/Treasurer – The list of Patron Members is updated here. You can become a Patron Member at any time—just contact me to find out how:

   09 Jul 2009 | New Recommended Link: We’ve posted a new link to Family Maps series of Land Patent Books on our Recommended Links page. Thanks to HFA Genealogist Phyllis Hughes for the suggestion.

   28 Apr 2009 | 2009 HFA Reunion Registration Form and Final Agenda: From Dan and Linda Hull, reunion hosts – The registration form and final agenda are now available for our 2009 HFA Reunion, to be held Thursday, 17 September through Saturday, 19 September 2009 in Independence, Missouri. The agenda includes lodging details and more.

Independence is the home of the Mid-Continent Public Library’s new Midwest Genealogy Center—the largest stand-alone public genealogy research facility in the United States—which we will have access to. Don’t miss coming and doing some great research and enjoying a great time with the Hull Bunch.

   06 Jan 2009 | New Recommended Link: We’ve posted a new link to Deciphering Old Handwriting on our Recommended Links page. Thanks to HFA Secretary Sheran McCants for the suggestion.

   24 Oct 2008 | Have You Updated Your Hull Lineage Lately? From Phyllis Hughes, HFA Genealogist – The Genealogy Committee of the Hull Family Association attempts to keep a lineage for each one of its members. You may remember filling this out when you first joined the HFA. If any of you have changed, updated, or corrected your lineage since joining the HFA, please let the committee know, so that we may also update our own records. Please send any revisions to:

   04 Sep 2008 | Free Research at Our Reunion – Please Complete Form: From 2008 Reunion Hosts Dan and Linda Hull – Free research is available for those staying at the Shilo Inn during our reunion. The Shilo Inn researcher requests that you complete this Family Group Record Form for those tough lines or family research problems you have. Please send the completed form ASAP via:

• E-mail (you’ll have to scan it) to:
  
• Fax to (801) 487-6424
• U.S. Mail to 1327 South 900 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105

More details about this year’s reunion are available here.

   29 Aug 2008 | Hundredth Query Posted: The hundredth query has been submitted to the HFA, by Gilbert Vaughn Hull (HFA Member #1578).

Since the HFA began posting queries here two years ago, we have received an average of nearly one query a week. Out of the 102 currently posted, the following statistics are taken.

   25 Aug 2008 | Attendee List Updated and Roommate Needed: From 2008 Reunion Hosts Dan and Linda Hull – The attendee list has been updated (scroll down to see it). Our hotel block is reserved until 29 August. A female HFA member is in need of a roommate 23–30 September. Please reserve your room ASAP so the hotel we can use the hotel’s own roommate research service. Or contact us if you’re interested.

   18 Aug 2008 | Hotel Deadline Extended and Attendee List Posted: From 2008 Reunion Hosts Dan and Linda Hull – 29 August 2008 is the new cutoff date for our group rate at the hotel. The list of attendees also has been posted. Read all about it here.

   11 Aug 2008 | Patron Members: From Bob Rees, HFA Membership Secretary/Treasurer – The list of 2008 Patron Members is updated here. You can become a Patron Member at any time—just contact me to find out how:

   18 Jul 2008 | New Recommended Link: We’ve posted a new link to Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection on our Recommended Links page. Thanks to HFA Genealogist Phyllis Hughes for the suggestion.

   07 Jul 2008 | Revised 2008 HFA Reunion Agenda: From 2008 Reunion Hosts Dan and Linda Hull – The reunion agenda has been revised to include an outline of the Friday afternoon lecture by Crista Cowan and more information about the Thursday (3:30 p.m.) event.

   30 Jun 2008 | New Recommended Link: We’ve posted a new link to Iowa WPA 1930s Graves Registration Survey on our Recommended Links page. We’re grateful to HFA Secretary Sheran McCants for the tip.

   20 Jun 2008 | 2008 HFA Reunion Registration Form and Agenda: From 2008 Reunion Hosts Dan and Linda Hull – The registration form and agenda are now available for this year’s reunion. Be sure to sign up before the deadline, to save extra charges.

   12 Jun 2008 | Submissions Policy: In the interest of clarity, we’ve posted the HFA Submissions Policy liberally around the website. Also, as stated in the “Guidelines for Submitting Electronic Files for HFA Publications,” we are unable to reimburse submitters for any potential or real expenses incurred in the research, writing, and transmission of articles or other submissions.

   13 Mar 2008 | Patron Members: From Bob Rees, HFA Membership Secretary/Treasurer – The listof 2008 Patron Members is posted here. You can become a Patron Member at any time—just contact me to find out how:

   05 Feb 2008 | 2008 HFA Reunion Hotel Group ID: From 2008 Reunion Hosts Dan and Linda Hull – To access our group rate and book in our group block, visit the Shilo Inns website, choose your dates, and input Group ID 092408HF. You can also make reservations by telephone at (800) 222-2244.

More information on the 2008 Reunion is available on our Annual Meeting page.

   30 Jan 2008 | Online Vital Records Links: We’ve posted a new category, Vital Records, on our Recommended Links. It includes genealogist Joe Beine’s list of online vital records, including digitized death certificates.

   21 Jan 2008 | 2008 HFA Reunion Dates: The 2008 HFA Reunion will be held Thursday, September 25 through Saturday, September 27, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our hosts this year are Dan and Linda Hull, of Salt Lake City. Plans now include a Coordinating Council meeting on Thursday morning (TBA), a picnic at the Hulls’ home, and the traditional Chinese dinner for those who can stay on Saturday night. If some are able to stay through Sunday morning they will have a chance to hear the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Salt Lake City, of course, is also the home of the Family History Library, which we will have access to. Other particulars will be forthcoming as we plan this exciting event.

   18 Jan 2008 | Hull/Holl/Hohl Family Group Sheets Available to HFA Members: From Phyllis Hughes, HFA Genealogist – Our previous count in October 2007 (HFA Newsletter 27:3) totaled 19,443 Hull/Holl/Hohl family group sheets in our HFA database. Our current total is 19,747, as of January 2008.

Individual family group sheets, three at a time, are available by e-mail to our members. For more information, see the 22 Feb 2007 news item below or contact HFA Genealogist Phyllis J. Hughes:

Hull family group sheets from Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina, and India are also in the HFA database. We are gradually building up quite a collection of British, Canadian, and European Hulls as well as Hulls from assorted other countries in our HFA database. Our latest numbers, updated from 09 August 2007, are:

• 334 Hull families from England (up from 315)
• 133 Hull families from Ireland (up from 130)
• 24 Hull families from Scotland
• 19 Hull family from Wales (up from 18)
• 221 Hull families from Canada (up from 217)
• 24 Hull families from Australia
• 140 Hull families from Germany
• 6 Hull families from Switzerland
• 5 Hull families from Holland
• 4 Hull families from Austria
• 12 Hull families from Sweden
• 1 Hull family from Finland
• 2 Hull families from Norway
• 6 Hull families from France
• 2 Hull families from Russia
• 1 Hull family from Czechoslovakia
• 1 Hull family from Hungary
• 2 Hull families from Portugal
• 4 Hull families from Mexico
• 1 Hull family from Argentina
• 4 Hull families from India

   10 Dec 2007 | MyFamily.com Notification Corrected: From the HFA Webmaster – MyFamily.com has fixed the automatic notification problem. If you had switched your notification option to Summary Notifications, you can switch back to Instant Notification and will receive e-mails whenever a new post is made to MyFamily.com. (Notification options are found under Edit Account > Site Membership > Change Notification Options for this site.)

Note: An advantage to Summary Notification is that you receive a list of replies to other members’ posts. With Instant Notification, you receive immediate notification only of replies to your own posts.

If you have any questions, as always, feel free to e-mail the Webmaster.

   01 Nov 2007 | More Recommended Links: Check out the newest additions to our Recommended Links page, including a link to the Warren and Polly Hull House website. Just look for the    symbol to locate what’s new.

   25 Oct 2007 | 2007 HFA Reunion Follow-up: At last month’s Annual Meeting and Reunion in Ft. Wayne, IN, we ratified a revision of the HFA Bylaws. The document is posted on MyFamily.com. (If you’re an HFA member and don’t have a login, contact the Webmaster.) Also posted are photos from the reunion.

   08 Oct 2007 | MyFamily.com Issues: From the HFA Webmaster –

• Auto-Notification of MyFamily.com Posts: It’s come to our attention that MyFamily.com is not sending automatic notification by e-mail when we post new messages on the HFA MyFamily.com website. Notification is only being made when you choose the “Summary Notifications” option. Summary notifications are sent once at the end of the day if any new posts are made. (Notification options are found under Edit Account > Site Membership > Change Notification Options for this site.)
     We have notified MyFamily.com about this issue, and they have acknowledged it, but they have not come up with a solution.
• MyFamily.com 2.0: MyFamily.com has announced to HFA website administrators that they plan to “migrate” all MyFamily.com websites from the current 1.0 version to a new (and hopefully improved) 2.0 version. The migration will take place by the end of the year. You can get information on the progress at the MyFamily.com Migration Center.

If you have any questions, as always, feel free to e-mail the Webmaster.

   06 Sep 2007 | 2007 HFA Reunion & Allen Co. Public Library Research: From Phyllis Hughes, HFA Genealogist – It is now September and time to begin planning for our annual HFA meeting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, September 27–29.

Since the Allen County Public Library there is known all over the country for its excellent genealogical collection, we’d like to inform you that their library catalog can be found online.

If you are planning to use the library, this will give everyone a chance to look up those catalog numbers before you arrive in Fort Wayne. You can also explore the catalog to see the holdings in this brand new library.

The library hours are:

9AM–9PM Monday–Thursday
9AM–6PM Friday & Saturday
12PM–5PM Sunday

You might also want to visit the Introduction to the Genealogy Center. This has a very good overview of what is contained in this fine library.

We’ll see you in the library!

The address is:

900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Phone: (260) 421-1200
E-mail: ask@acpl.info

As for the Fort Wayne Inn, where we will be staying, it is located at 300 E. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46802.

For more information on the hotel, go to Yahoo! Travel.

Airport Shuttle Service: The Fort Wayne Inn, which is providing our accommodations for this year’s reunion, offers shuttle service from the Fort Wayne Airport. Call Missy at (260) 422-5511 and let her know when you will arrive.

   09 Aug 2007 | Hull Family Group Sheets from Britain and Canada in HFA Database: From Phyllis Hughes, HFA Genealogist – We are gradually building up quite a collection of British and Canadian Hulls in our HFA database. Our latest numbers, updated from 22 May 2007, are:

• 315 Hull families from England (up from 223)
• 130 Hull families from Ireland (up from 127)
• 24 Hull families from Scotland (up from 19)
• 18 Hull family from Wales (up from 1)
• 217 Hull families from Canada (up from 211)

Individual family group sheets, three at a time, are available by e-mail to our members. For more information, see this 22 Feb 2007 news item.

   09 Aug 2007 | Summer 2007 HFA Journal Table of Contents: The latest issue of the HFA Journal will be mailed shortly. We’ve posted its Table of Contents.

   11 Jul 2007 | 2006 Meeting Minutes Available for Review: From Sheran McCants, HFA Secretary – Last year’s meeting minutes are now available for review on MyFamily.com. (If you haven’t received an invitation to join MyFamily.com, contact the Webmaster. It’s a free HFA member benefit.)

All attendees of last year’s and this year’s (27–28 September 2007) reunions and annual meetings should review these minutes for accuracy, since they will be approved without an oral reading by the Secretary this year.

   19 Apr 2007 | 2007 HFA Reunion – Change in Host, Registration: After graciously having made all the arrangements for this year’s HFA Reunion, hosts Dr. James R. Hull (HFA #0077) and Denise Hull (HFA Member #0491) have found it necessary to relinquish subsequent responsibility for the event.

The reunion is still scheduled for Ft. Wayne, Indiana. HFA President Barbara A. Hull (HFA Member #0371)—no stranger to hosting the reunion herself—has agreed to fill in.

Registration forms and fees now will be sent to HFA Vice President Eva M. Bachman (HFA Member #1332). The registration form has been updated accordingly.

The 2007 HFA Reunion will be held in Ft. Wayne, Indiana from the 27th to the 29th of September 2007. Names of those who have registered are being posted on the Reunion page.

Thanks to Jim and Denise for all the planning they’ve done to make this another spectacular HFA event! And thanks to Barb and Eva for pinch-hitting.

   12 Mar 2007 | 2007 HFA Reunion – Agenda: The agenda for the 2007 Reunion, September 27–29, is now available. The Annual Meeting and Reunion will be held in Ft. Wayne, IN at the Allen County Public Library. Accomodations at the Fort Wayne Inn (formerly Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites).

   22 Feb 2007 | More Recommended Links: Check out the newest additions to our Recommended Links page. Just look for the    symbol to locate what’s new.

   22 Feb 2007 | Family Group Sheets Available to HFA Members: We now have compiled nearly 19,000 Hull/Holl/Hohl family group sheets in our HFA database. The HFA Genealogist is able to send out by e-mail as many as three individual family group sheets at a time to our members. When requesting them, please follow these instructions.

A Family Group Sheet lists the names of the father, mother, children, and their spouses, along with dates, locations, and notes on any particular family. The names of ancestors are also given, when known. Brief references are also given on these sheets.

   16 Feb 2007 | Enhanced Access to MyFamily.com for HFA Members: Today, HFA members were granted full access to the HFA MyFamily.com website. Members’ “Guest” status has be upgraded to “User,” thereby allowing you to post your own messages, queries, and photographs. Be sure to look for the “Enhanced Access” notice on the HFA MyFamily.com Front Page for tips on posting queries, searching the site, and more. If you haven’t been invited to join MyFamily.com, contact Bob Rees, the HFA Membership Secretary/Treasurer:

   15 Feb 2007 | 2007 HFA Reunion – Registration Form: The registration form for the 2007 Reunion, September 27–29, is now available. Register by August 27 to receive the early bird rate! This year’s reunion will be held in Ft. Wayne, Indiana—home of the newly expanded Allen County Public Library and its extensive Genealogy Center. See the form for further details.

   13 Feb 2007 | Early Hull Family Newsletter Posted on MyFamily.com: Bob Rees, our Membership Secretary/Treasurer, has posted the complete five years of the Hull Family Newsletter on MyFamily.com. This newsletter was published by “Saratoga” Bob Hull (HFA Member #0000) from 1981 to 1986, before the HFA was founded. Bob Rees (HFA Member #0663) scanned the newsletter from copies provided by Myrtle A. Traxler (HFA Member #0098). If you haven’t been invited to join MyFamily.com, contact Bob Rees, the HFA Membership Secretary/Treasurer:

   23 Jan 2007 | HFA Journal Spring Issue Preview: Here are a few of the items to be featured in the upcoming HFA Journal, which will be published in April:

• Hull Immigrants from Canada
• Hulls in North Carolina
• Hulls in Perry County, Ohio
• Hulls in Washington County, Maryland and Seneca County, Ohio
• Hulls in Morrow County, Ohio

   06 Jan 2007 | Frank Price Receives National Arts Post: William Frank Price Jr. (HFA Member #1172) was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a member of the National Council on the Arts, which advises the National Endowment for the Arts. We’ll have the full story in the Spring 2007 issue of the HFA Newsletter, due for publication next month. —Item submitted by Stephen Pearson (HFA Member #1115)

   06 Jan 2007 | New Recommended Links: We added the following to our Recommended Links page.

• Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire, reference for pre-WWII place names, and How to Use the Gazetteer. —Item submitted by Dr. James R. Hull (HFA Member #0077)
• Internet Surname Database, containing 50,000 surname origin researches. —Item submitted by David A. Braithwaite (HFA Member #1281)
• Northern New York Historical Newspapers, with access to more than 20 newspapers. —Item submitted by “Tricia” Shumate Lewis (HFA Member #1297)

   29 Dec 2006 | Passing of Howard Cox: The HFA recently received the sad news of the death of HFA member #0892 Howard Cox with this message from his wife, Dee Cox:

Howard passed away at 12:45 p.m., Dec. 23. He went as he wished, quickly with no pain. He had esophagus cancer and could no longer swallow anything. Please pass the word to the Hull friends.

Howard served as our Membership Secretary/Treasurer for the 2003–2004 term. He and Dee rarely missed an HFA reunion and they hosted us in October 2001 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. At several of our meetings there were three generations of Howard’s family who attended, as well as his sister, HFA member #0863 Mary C. Cox Stipe. HFA member #0951 Robert Eads Cox is Howard and Dee’s son. HFA members #0920 Donald Elbert Cox and #0951 Robert Enos Cox are other relatives.

The service was at Zion Church of Christ, Lehighton, Pennsylvania at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, 28 December. Dee has asked that instead of flowers any memorial gifts be sent to a charity of choice in Howard’s name.

The HFA extends its sincere sympathy to Dee, their children, grandchildren, and the entire family of Howard Cox.

   21 Dec 2006 | Genealogist’s Corner Updated:

• Added errors for four famous Hulls, Hull coat of arms, and Hulls in Washington Co., PA
• Expanded the error lists for the German Hohl/Holl/Hull, George Hull, Rev. Joseph Hull, and Richard Hull lines
• Added the Revolutionary War Location Index for Hulls/Hohls/Holls [PDF; requires free Adobe Reader]

   07 Dec 2006 | Australian Hulls Plan Reunion for October 2007: Last week we received word from Cynthia Hull (a non-member), who is planning a reunion of “English, Scots, and ‘don’t know’ descent.” She’s scheduled it for October 6, 2007 in Victor Harbor, South Australia. A notice and contact info is posted on Oz Reunion. Cynthia has a webpage in the “Down Under” section of Robert Parker’s Hull Family History site.

   06 Dec 2006 | Recommended Links: Check out this new addition to the HFA website: Recommended Links.

   01 Dec 2006 | 2007 HFA Reunion Dates: The 2007 HFA Reunion will be held on Thursday, September 27; Friday, September 28; and Saturday, September 29, 2007 in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Other particulars will be forthcoming as we plan this exciting event.

   30 Nov 2006 | Autumn 2006 HFA Journal Table of Contents: The latest issue of the HFA Journal will be mailed shortly. We’ve posted its Table of Contents.

   18 Nov 2006 | U.S. Passenger Lists 1820–1960: Dr. James R. Hull (HFA Member #0077) notified us of this Ancestry.com feature, free through November 30. The collection includes 7 million digitized images of passenger lists and 1,000 ship images. HFA members who have MyFamily.com accounts can use their regular login/password, without having to register again. Need an account? Contact the HFA Webmaster.

   11 Nov 2006 | Newsletter Corrections (Autumn 2006): See these two corrections for the most recent HFA Newsletter.

   11 Nov 2006 | Massachusetts Death Index 1841–1910 Now Online: Dr. James R. Hull (HFA Member #0077) alerted us to this Index to Vital Records, published by the Massachusetts Archives; only deaths are available at present. Searchable fields are: First/Last Names, Town, and Start/End Years. Results returned include those fields as well as Volume and Page. Other searchable collections available online are the Massachusetts Archives Collection Database (1629–1799) and Index to Passenger Manifests (1848–1891).

   06 Nov 2006 | Reunion Photos: HFA members can see photos from our recent reunion in Phoenix on our members-only website.

   05 Sep 2006 | The Hull DNA Project: Check out our newest web page for a brief overview of the DNA Project, originated and administered by Dr. James Reynolds Hull (HFA Member #0077). Read about HFA support of the project and see how you can become involved.

   08 Jul 2006 | Query Notification: From David Hughes, Webmaster – Would you like automatic notification when the HFA posts a new query? You can do it through your “members only” MyFamily.com account.

• In MyFamily.com, select Edit Account (at the top of any page)
• Under Site Membership, select Change Notification Options for this site
• Under Notifications, select the Content Notifications checkbox and one of the radio buttons that follow—Summary Notifications or Instant Notifications—depending on how frequently you want MyFamily.com to send you updates

While you’re at it you can use the Event Reminders options at the top of the same page to set your Birthday Reminders preference. Any questions? E-mail me.

   03 Jul 2006 | Newsletter Editor Appointed: From Barbara A. Hull, President – There is good news that I am delighted to share with everyone. Tricia Shumate Lewis, a Hull Family Association member, has come to our rescue! She has a full-time job, a young child, but she is willing to be the Editor for the Newsletter. That is wonderful news and we will do our best to help her. If you have a family story you would like to share, contact Tricia:

   03 Jul 2006 | Help Us Keep Up-to-Date: Please help us to keep our records current in two different ways:

• If your e-mail address has changed since you first submitted it to the HFA, please send us your current one
• If you have updated your Hull lineage since you first submitted it to the HFA, please send us your current lineage. This would include all  who have also found more than one Hull lineage in their ancestry
  

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