D-Day CelebrationsChildren overseeing project at ECOS centre.

Genealogy

If you've always wondered about your roots, it's time to mix research and pleasure and come to your ancestral homeland for some digging. It may seem like a needle in a haystack when you consider there are 25 million people of Northern Irish descent in the United States and Canada alone. But you'd be amazed what our professionals can find! With luck, you may be able to go directly to your ancestral home on arrival!

Linenhall Library

Tracing Roots

Before you come, start your search at home.

Derry Genealogy Centre

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ulster scots

Ulster Scots

Ulster-Scots are the people who settled in Ulster in the 17th century.

Celtic

Celtic Races

The Celts migrated gradually westward from their origins in the Middle East, around 5,000 years ago.

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