The document discusses several topics related to the plantation and legacy of plantation in Tyrone and Fermanagh, including: 1) Migration patterns from 1607-2007 and family migration histories of groups like the Fitzgeralds and Harveys. 2) Current research themes being explored including archaeology, material culture, the Bible, Gaelic architecture, maps and surveys, ecology, and sources on native Irish reaction. 3) Issues related to the plantation such as private profit versus public security, timber assets, gender, intermarriage, the frontier and points of contact/conflict, out migration as a safety valve, the variable ethnic makeup in local areas, adjustment to new land and economic systems, and Dublin as