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: Similarities in the development of the Gaelic-Ulster and Maoiri cultures (Anthony McCann) 18th- and 19th-century Irish emigres in France (John H. McGuckin, Jr.) Nothing ventured nothing gained: a case study in long-distance Irish genealogical research (Dave Mitchell) Ceneal Moain and the O'Gormleys in east Donegal and west Tyrone (Brian Deeny) Another Ulster in New Zealand (Doreen McBride) The Fat Family and the Ridge of the Cow: the Ulster Scot ancestry of Count Dmitri Nikolaevich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (Douglas Carson) How to use the Registry of Deeds of Ireland, Dublin (Jean Agnew) The historical archives of the Council of Ministers of the European Communities (Patrick Radcliffe) Back to Bonnie Kellswater: glimpses of emigration (Eull Dunlop)