Tracing Derry-Londonderry Roots

Description

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 DerryÔÇÖs importance in Irish emigration and explains how it impacts genealogical research for the area.