Historical Southern Families is a twenty-three-volume series of authoritative genealogies covering a broad spectrum of Southern families. The series was compiled by the late John Bennett Boddie, whose distinguished contributions to Southern genealogy were attested to by his induction as a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, and completed by his wife. Each volume contains a number of genealogies running from a few pages to as many as several dozen or more. The following families are included in this volume:

Avery, Breed, and Montgomery of SC
Baber-Babers of VA
Boatright of TN
Etheridge of NC and GA
Ezell of VA, TN, and TX
Harris of VA and GA
Hubbard of VA, KY, and other southern states
Rose of Surry
Smith of NC, SC, and TN
Strother of Old Rappanhannock, SC, and GA
White of SC and MS
Errata and Addenda: Lovelace and Parham of VA.