Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review is the journal of Ulster Historical Foundation's membership association (an historical research co-operative, known as the Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild). Each year, in December, members receive Familia and a directory of their research interests, entitled Directory of Irish Family History Research. Non-members can purchase copies of these books. Since 1985, Familia has set a consistently high standard of balanced articles of wider historical and biographical importance, and providing all-important practical advice on sources for Irish family and local history in the nine-county province of Ulster. This issue of Familia, contains the following articles: 'President Barack Obama, family history and modern America' by Brian Walker 'The genealogical value of the Ordnance Survey Memoirs' by Mary Wack 'Bridging to the deep past. Genealogists, geneticists and The Chronicle of Ireland' by Donald Harman Akenson 'The 1859 revival in Mid-Antrim. Some sesquicentenary comment on people and places' by Eull Dunlop 'Aspects of the 1859 revival in the Maze, Broomhedge and Kilwarlin areas near Lisburn' by Gilbert Watson 'A view from the eastern shore of the Atlantic - another way to look at emigration' by Linde Lunney 'Burying the past? Evidence of burial customs in wills' by Christina Morgan 'The Ulster-Scottish medical tradition' by Richard Clarke Reviews