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:

Allred, Cliborn, and Pitman of NC
Anderson of VA
Delafields of southern states
Etheridge of Norfolk
Hayes-Hays and Jernigan of VA and NC
Matthews of Isle of Wight
Mercer and Bigg of Lower Norfolk
Napier of VA, TN, and other southern states
Rose of Surry
Tate of Pearl River
Errata and Addenda: Fontaine, Jefferson, Rose, and Smallwood