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 edition of Familia includes the following articles: Irish emigration: new sources, new approaches, new results by Cormac O Grada Dawson Bates (1879-1949). The original sinner? by David S. Cook ‘Another little trouble over’: the unique characteristics of the circus in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland by Richard McMinn Lost mansions and grand families, North Belfast as a wealthy nineteenth-century suburb by Roger Dixon A Narrow Sea: charting the movement of peoples over millennia across the North Channel by Jonathan Bardon The Barry family of Magheramorne and Ulster emigration to Australia by David Hume An Irish officer in the Crimea: the letters of George Noble Roe, 1855-56 by D. George Boyce Three women writers and their Ulster family connections by Rosalind Delmar Fred McCullough: Belfast painter’s migration to Tasmania by James Bartlett Crossing the Narrow Sea: the Ulster-Scots influence on a family’s identity by Arthur Bell