Phyllis Jean Pankonin Hughes, 1930-2024: This page of our website originated with Phyllis Hughes and is dedicated to her memory. She was an early contributor to the Hull Family Newsletter which began in 1981, and a major catalyst in its transformation into the Hull Family Association in 1985. She was the HFA Genealogist from 1985 until retiring in 2020. Phyllis was also Editor of the HFA Newsletter and Journal for many years and served the HFA in other capacities such as the Website committee, DNA Project, Family Group Sheet database and Hull lineage files. If you’ve searched for a Hull ancestor in the past 40 years, you have likely benefited from her Newsletter and Journal articles, books, comments in online forums, or perhaps had the opportunity to know and work with her directly. It was our privilege and honor to have her services and support all those years and will be forever grateful for her work in documenting and preserving the history and genealogy of the various Hull families across America. Along the way she amassed a personal collection of over 700 volumes of Hull genealogical information which is now entrusted to the Denver Public Library in the form of the Phyllis J. Hughes Hull/Holl/Hohl Genealogical Collection where it remains available for public access.

Genealogical Pointers

The following articles provide a head start for the novice researcher and a helpful reminder for the experienced genealogist.

• What Are the Traits of a First-Class Genealogist?
• Common Errors in Hull Lineages
• Seeking the Truth in Family Stories
• Notes to Participants in Genealogical E-mail
• Revolutionary War Location Index for Hulls/Hohls/Holls [PDF; requires free Adobe Reader]

Items we would like to add at a future date include:

• Hull immigrant lists from our HFA Journals
• Major Tools for finding your Hull immigrant ancestor

Queries

HFA members may submit queries to aid in finding new information on their ancestors.

Family Group Sheets

The HFA has a database of nearly 20,000 Hull/Holl/Hohl family group sheets. Even though the data on these sheets is not always complete, the information they contain, along with the various sources cited, can serve as a guide for additional research on those families.

Current members (and members only) may request PDF copies of these family group sheets. Please limit your request to no more than three sheets at a time, and allow up to three weeks for a response.

• Please be very specific about names, dates, locations, etc. For example, it is not enough to simply ask for the George Hull family group sheet because we have over 600 George Hull families in our database. Tell us when they born or died, spouses name, where they lived, etc.
• Every sheet requested must contain a Hull, Holl, or Hohl surname. Due to limitations of time and resources, we normally we do not carry down female lines once the Hull/Holl/Hohl surname has been lost.
• If the request is for a name that also appears in The Hull Family in America, by Charles H. Weygant, published 1913, we may be unable to send those sheets, unless we have information not found in that publication. While the Weygant book is known to contain some errors, it is freely available online (but not part of the HFA website). One such location is: The Hull Family in America
• Family group sheets will only be sent by email and only in PDF format.
• In your request, be sure and include your full name and HFA Member number, and send all requests to: