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Family Archives CD #191
This CD contains images of the pages of two classic works on Southern
genealogy, namely, John Bennett Boddie's 23-volume Historical Southern
Families and Zella Armstrong's 6-volume Notable Southern Families.
The combined works deal with hundreds of Southern families and provide
information on approximately l50,000 individuals.
Boddie's Historical Southern Families, begun in 1957, has long been
considered the foundation of Southern genealogy--the product of impeccable
research and outstanding scholarship. Boddie himself was a Fellow of the
American Society of genealogists (limited to fifty members) and one of the few
Americans ever inducted as a Fellow into the Society of Genealogists (London).
Although his 23-volume series was completed after his death by his wife, the
same high standards that characterized the earlier volumes are present in the
later ones.
Each volume contains a number of lineages that run from a few pages each to
as many as several dozen, and in some cases, over a hundred pages. Thoroughly
researched--often compiled in collaboration with the descendants of the families
themselves--these genealogies are models of authority and scholarship and cover
multiple generations of many of the largest and best-known families in the
South. Writing in the April-June (1968) issue of the distinguished journal The
Virginia Genealogist, a reviewer commented that "those undertaking
research on Southern families, and particularly those of Virginia, will find an
examination of these volumes a necessary first step in their
investigations."
Zella Armstrong's Notable Southern Families was begun in 1918 and
completed in 1932. It comprises a large collection of family histories that
refer to thousands of persons of Cavalier, Scotch-Irish, and Huguenot descent,
the one common denominator being the milieu of the South. In almost every
instance family lines are brought down to the early 20th century, each line
convincingly developed after a thorough study of court records, histories,
family bibles, and miscellaneous family documents. Although the primary aim of
the work is to trace the colonial or Revolutionary settler and his American
progeny, treatment is sometimes given to the European forebears of the original
settler. Each genealogy is carefully developed, giving all names in both
collateral and direct lines of descent, dates and places of birth, marriage, and
death, places of residence, and all other particulars of genealogical
significance.
In preparing this work, Miss Armstrong drew on the services of a large group
of specialists, in some instances publishing their findings in entirety, and in
the case of Volume V--covering the Crockett family and connecting
lines--actually collaborating with Janie Preston Collup French (who incidentally
contributed the entire contents of Volume VI). The net result is a product of
enduring reference value.
For purposes of manufacturing this CD, every page of these two multi-volume
works has been electronically scanned; and for convenience an electronic name
index is provided to enable you to search for your ancestors quickly and easily.
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