Robert Davidson (ca.1790-1834) married Margaret Murdock, and they immigrated in 1834 from Scotland to land in Webster Township, Wood County, Ohio. His brother William immigrated with them, and settled in Illinois. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and elsewhere. To a major degree, the book lists the descendants and relatives who lived (at one time or another) in Wood County, Ohio.

The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.

Daniel Davison, progenitor of our family of Davison in America, was born in Scotland in 1630. He was exiled to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Ohio Source Records is composed of articles from the scarce periodical The Ohio Genealogical Quarterly. This book consolidates and indexes the contents of the periodical, which consisted chiefly of cemetery records, tax lists, newspaper abstracts, and vital records, the combined articles bearing reference to about 45,000 persons.