Hi Linda, Is this in Emigrants and Exiles? Do have the page reference or even the exact phrase? I have the book and have searched it several times but can't find this quote. I even tried using Google books to search it then reading the paper pages for the ones Google isn't displaying and still no luck. Joseph Flock III Linda wrote: Besides all that, Kirby Miller says in his book on Irish emigration that Donegal lost much of its population long before the (recent) Potato Famine.