Book Report: Historical Southern Families

 

 

 

Historical Southern Families

23 Volumes

 

By John Bennett Boddie

Clearfield Company, Inc.

Genealogical Publishing

1998 Reprint

 

These books are packed full of information about early southern families. Besides birth, marriage and death data, for some families there is immigration details, land transactions, and wills. Some family tree charts are included. A few black and white photos are included. The amount of information about each family varies. 

 

It is difficult to tell which families are in each book. The Table of Contents in each volume highlights the primary families and the index, in tiny print, lists the other people included. 

The photograph, below, is the Table of Contents from Volume II. It gives an idea of how each volume looks.

The photograph, below, is from Volume VIII. This is a family of mine, The Lawrence Family in Virginia and North Carolina. It continues for 7 pages. 

These books have been useful for my research.