Strabane & West Ulster in the 1800s, is an in-depth look at the lives and time of people of all classes and creeds in the early decades of the 19th century. The information is extracted from the pages of the weekly newspaper, The Strabane Morning Post, and much previously unavailable material has now been brought into the public domain. 428 pages

This book tells the story of the parish of Donagheady and its families over three centuries. Donagheady occupies the most northerly portion of County Tyrone. It is a large parish, stretching from the River Foyle to the Sperrins. In the period covered by this study Donagheady experienced massive changes with the result that the parish in 1900 was a very different place from the one it had been in 1600. Through the Plantation..... 390 pgs.

The ancestry of the Hamiltons of Kype in Lanarkshire, Scotland has never been proven until the publication of this E-book by Edgar Bralley.  It contains a veritable goldmine of data on the history of Avondale and the families who lived there. A must-read for anyone interested in Lanarkshire history and genealogy. 97 letterhead-size pg. + 17-pg. index. Click to View the Complete Index

The aim of this ground-breaking book is to make available original and unique source material from the archives PRONI - early records from the Plantation of Ulster, hearth, muster and subsidy rolls, estate records, will abstracts, pre-1800 church records of births, marriages and deaths. Those listed in this book are among the founders of the Ulster-Scots and thus of the Scots-Irish who became the single most important ethnic group to settle in America during the eighteenth century....more details & surname list.....

Part Two in the series Scots-Irish origins, this volume focuses on the seventeenth century plantation of county Londonderry and makes available for the first time two important genealogical sources, the 1630 Muster Roll and the Summonister (Court) Rolls c.1615-1670 for Co. Londonderry. Mr. Forrest has utilised the Summonister Court Rolls, the 1622 survey by Phillips and Hadsor, the 1630 muster roll and the 1641 depositions to write a short history of the ‘Plantation of Londonderry c.1600-1670.’ He traces the development of the Londoners’ twelve plantations, as well as the growth of urbanization within the county focusing primarily on Londonderry, Coleraine and Limavady. There are 1,727 variant surnames contained in this volume that locate name to place....more details & surname list.....