Jean Bricquet and his family, Huguenots, immigrated from France to Charleston, South Carolina in the 1680s, and moved to Westmoreland County, Virginia (probably via Annapolis, Maryland) before 1690. Descendants lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, California and elsewhere.

The history of the community and people of Conway County, Arkansas.

Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print

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.

The immigrant Johann George Gelsinger and his son John from Hessen to Pennsylvania in 1754; 1560 direct descendants. Joseph Friend from North Carolina and Kentucky to Illinois in 1829. Related families of Oglesby (from Tennessee & North Carolina), Haney (from Kentucky, Virginia, & Pennsylvania), two Williams families (Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, & North Carolina) settled in Illinois by 1830- 1840; the Thompson family (Kentucky & Virginia) were in Illinois Territory by about 1804-05.