This work concentrates upon families with a strong connection to Virginia and Kentucky, most of which are traced forward from the eighteenth, if not the seventeenth, century. The compiler makes ample use of published sources some extent original records, and the recollections of the oldest living members of a number of the families covered. Finally. The essays reflect a balanced mixture of genealogy and biography, which makes for interesting reading and a substantial number of linkages between as many as six generations of family members.

Moses Granberry was born in about 1700. He married Elizabeth. They had eight children. He died in 1753 in Norfolk County, Virginia. Ancestors descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Virginia, Massachusetts and Georgia.

William Simpson (ca.1760-1816), of Scot lineage, emigrated from Ireland to Madison County, Alabama in 1802. Descendants and relatives lived in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, California and elsewhere.

A genealogy and a history of the Miner family who are descendants of Thomas Miner born 23 Apr 1608 at Chew-Magna, Somerset Count, England the son of Clement Miner. He married 3 Apr 1634 Grace Palmer at Rehoboth, Mass. He died 23 Oct 1690 at Stonington, Conn.

Include a given name index for Whitten and variant spellings, and a surname index for other surnames.

William French (b.1603) and his family emigrated from England in 1624 on the ship "Defence" to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the son of Thomas French of Halstead, County Essex, England. William and his wife Elizabeth were married in about 1623. William is a descendant of "Thomas French the elder, of Weathersfield, County Essex, England, [who] died [in] 1599".--P. 21. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry in England.

Fascinating account of the men and women of the Bouligny family and their allied families who helped shape the history of Louisiana.

William Copeland (ca.1625-ca.1700) immigrated from Scotland to Lancaster (later Middlesex) County, Virginia, and married twice (once in Virginia). Descendants lived in Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and elsewhere.