Tracing Derry-Londonderry Roots

Brian Mitchell the best-selling author of A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland has written a book to enable anyone--local people and visitors alike--to research their family history in the city and county of Londonderry (also known as Derry). In the 18th 19th and early 20th centuries the city of Derry was a major port of embarkation for Irish emigrants and County Derry in northernmost Ulster was populated by persons of Gaelic Irish Gaelic Scottish Lowland Scottish and English origins--any number of whom would take part in the exodus to the Americas Great Britain and Australasia. Tracing Derry-Londonderry Roots recounts Derry's importance in Irish emigration and explains how it impacts genealogical research for the area.