An index to all the families in the four volume set of the Allen family of Eastern Kentucky by the Magoffin County Historical Society.

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

Hezekiah Vanderpool, Sr. was the son of Abraham Vanderpool. He married Sophia Sexton in about 1808. Three of their sons, James, John M. and Hezekiah, Jr., migrated from Wise, Virginia to Kentucky. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Kentucky, North Carolina and Ohio.