This book is a time-saving and comprehensive guide to family histories contained in books, pamphlets, periodical articles, and manuscript collections up to the year of its original publication in 1930. The coverage is exhaustive, embracing references to approximately 6,500 families. The families are listed in alphabetical order and, thereunder, where necessary to distinguish families of the same name, by residence, seat, or estate, the citations giving the title of the publication in which the genealogy is found, the author, date of publication, and, where appropriate, volume and page number.