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Winter 1982165THE TEXARKANA USA QUARTERLY, Texarkana USA Gen. Soc., Inc., P.O. Box 2323,TexarkanaAR/TX 75501. 7.50. Vol. 9, No.3, (60 pp.) has family information, queries, Bible information, school photos, cemetery listings, and the beginning of an articlelisting Bowie Co. marriage licenses that were not picked up after being recorded.QUARTERLY, Gwinnett Co. Historical Soc., Inc., P.O. Box 261, Laurenceville, GA30246. 7.50. Issue No.3 (19 pp) has Hackett cemetery update, newspaper obituaries, queries, and articles of historical and genealogical interest in Gwinnett Co.MISSISSIPPI GENEALOGICAL EXCHANGE, Ronnie Farris McGinnis, Ed., P.O. Box 16609,Jackson, MS 39236. 15. Vol. 28, No.3, features Greene Co. 1870 census index, cemetery records, Bible records, Confederate grave registration, queries, etc.THE BULLETIN, West Central KY Family Research Assoc., P.O. Box 1932, Owensboro, KY42302. 8 initial membership; 5 renewal. Vol. XV, No.3, (18 pp) has queries,obituaries, and other articles of genealogical interst.THE KANSAS CITY GENEALOGIST, Heart of America Gen. Society, c/o Kansas City PublicLibrary, 311 East 12th St., Kansas City, MO 64106. 9, subscription; 6 membershipdues. This issue has 48 pages plux index and includes tax lists of Jackson Co.,church records, queries, Platte Co. contested legislation election 1866, family information, queries, and the obstetric records of Dr. Peacock, etc.BULLETIN, Weakley Co. Gen. Society, dues to Martha J. Hutchens, P.O. Box 92, Martin,TN 38237. 6.50. Vol. 1, No. 1(6 pp)surname update and queries.(RICHARDSON FAMILY RESEARCHER & HISTORICAL NEWS, Richardson Heritage Soc., P.O. Box123, Broken Bow, NE 68822. 7.50 yr. or 2 per issue. Information about therage-Hite surnames.THE WAGGONER, The NW Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 6, Alliance, NE 69301. 12.50.Vol. 5, No.1, (80 pp) features information on Sioux, Dawes, Box Butte and SheridanCounties. This issue has membership-surname-geographical index, biographicalsketches, queries, 1887 tax list, church records, and roster of Xowa soldiers inNebraska in 1884.RAINEY TIMES, Rachel Rainey, Box 7, Walnut Ridge, AR 72476. 10. Vol. 2, No.1has queries, obituaries, family briefs, court records, census, reunion, and extracts of Raineys from various sources including births, deaths, marriages, wills,deeds, and military information. Also has a special 160 page issue, Vol. 2A, whichis entirely ancestor and family group charts and is 12.50.HASH FAMILY HISTORIAN, Richard O. Johnson, 4251 Ralph Lane N., Fresno, CA 93727. 5. Twelve pages of census, marriage, tombstone inscriptions, and all kinds ofinformation on the Hash name.NEWSLETTER OF THE PARK SOCIETY, Pricilla C. Parke, Secly, 125 Amity St., Amherst,MA01002. 5 application fee; annual dues of 4. Includes information on present dayParks as well as pictures, genealogical information on Park ancestors.KATES KIN, Anna Kates Gardner, P.O. Box 8, Rarden, OH 45671. This is a bi-monthlypublication of 4-6 pages per issue on Kates surname. Write for information.NOTE:Costs. shown for all publications in this column are for theyear, individual membership, unless otherwise indicated.

166"Ansearchin'" NewsBOOK REVIEWSBy Herman L. Bogan, Eleanor W. Griffin, Wanda C. JamesMARRIAGES OF BLOUNT COUNTY, TENNESSEE 1795-1859 compiled by Edythe Rucker Whitley.back. 102 pp. Indexed.21202. 15.00.1982. HardOrder from Genealogical Publishing Co., 111 Water St., Baltimore, MDThe marriages listed in this work have been copied from a register in the county clerk's officein Maryville. The majority of the records derive from marriage licenses and thus prove thatthe marriage was performed. In some cases the records derive from bonds, which in themselvesare not proof of a marriage, only that a marriage was intended. The records abstracted heregive names of bride and groom, the date of issue of the bond or license and the names of bondsmen. 4,000 marriages are listed here; a great place to begin eastern Tennessee research.INDEX OF NORTH CAROLINA ANCESTORS by the North Carolina Genealogical Society.378 pp. 18.75.Indexed.1981. Soft back.Order from The Reprint Co., Publishers, P.O. Box 5401, Spartanburg, SC 29304.A valuable book, indeed, intended to promote the exchange of information among researchers working on North Carolina family lines. From entries submitted by over 1,000 contributors it contains the names of over 10,000 North Carolina ancestors and their spouses with biographical information on each. There are three indexes: ancestor, spouse, and contributor. The lattergives the names and addresses of the contributors with appropriate keying to entrees in theancestor index. A suppliment gives formation data on North Carolina's 106 present or formercounties.CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS OF MARION COUNTY, ALABAMA, Vol. III compiled by Dorothy Shores Stalc andWilliam Spann Stalcup. 1982. Soft back. 47 pp. Indexed. Order from Mrs. Stalcup, P.O. BOx217, Winfield, AL 35594. 10.00 (AL residents add 4% sales tax)This is the third and final volume of Marion County Cemetery Inscriptions compiled by husbandand wife. There are 67 cemeteries and burial places listed in this book. Most of the locations are small family plots, graves at the side of a road or graves isolated in woods andfields. These cemeteries are important to genealogy research since the graves of early settlers who purchased the land from the government were found while researching this volume.There are several Franklin County cemeteries included because they contain ancestors of pr sentday Marion County residents. Also included are several Black American cemeteries. The authorshave made these cemeteries available in printed form for the first time, hoping it will behelpful to many people researching for their ancestors.MONTGOMERY COUNTY ILLINOIS 1860 CENSUS AND MORTALITY SCHEDULE compiled by the Montgomery CountyGenealogical Society. 1982. Soft back. About 197 pp.Box 212, Litchfield, .IL 62056. 11.00.Indexed.Order from the Society, P.O.Information included in section one of the book is dwelling number, family number, given nameand surname of each person, age, sex, color, occupation (by code) and birthplace. Real estateand personal property values are indicated by Rand P - amounts not given. Section two of thebook contains the information from the mortality schedule, the name of person who died, age,sex, color, free or slave, married or widowed, place of birth, month died, occupation, cause ofdeath, and number of days ill. This 1860 index to the Montgomery County Census is most welcomeby the researcher in the southern central portion of Illinois.STINNETT, GUEST AND ALLIED LINES by Mrs. Alice Stinnett Watson.Indexed.Order from the author, 117 South Ave.,D, Portales, NM1981. Hard back.88130. 21.00.120 pp.Mrs. Watson has compiled a remarkable Stinnett chronology which is exhaustive in its scope.Early Stinnetts of record were William Stinnett and his descendants of Calvert County, Maryland,James, John and William in Virginia and in the 1790 U.S. Census of Rowan County, North CarolinatWilliam and John. In 1815 James and Samuel Stinet were in Bledsoe County, Tennessee and othersappeared in Kentucky, Missouri and Texas. In 1896 Samuel Henry Stinnett married Mrs. Mary JaneGuest Woodburn. This introduced the Guest heritage, which is also detailed here. There arenine proven lines back to the Revolutionary War included here. They are: Guest, Watson, Jackson, McCarter, Barton, Hanna, Woodburn, Loggins and Harrison.

Winter 1982167Book Reviews (continued)MARRIAGES OF STEWART COUNTY, TENNESSEE 1838-1866 compiled by Edythe Rucker whitley.1982.Hard back. 105 pp. Indexed by Eleanor R. Antoniak. Order from the Genealogical PublishingCo., Inc., 111 Water St., Baltimore, MD 21202. 16.00.Although the county seat was established as early as 1805, the earliest marriage records inthe courthouse at Dover date from 1838. The compiler says, "The earlier records were lost ordestroyed before I began copying the records, now more than thirty years ago." Her listingscover loose records and Marriage Books 1 & 2; and state the names of groom, bride and date ofbond. The date of marriage and officiant are given (when available) for the loose recordssection. This volume will be helpful to researchers of this border county, which containsthe major waterways of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers.HICKMAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE CEMETERY RECORDS by Jill Garrett and Iris H. McClain.back.329 pp.Indexed.1982. SoftOrder from Mrs. Garrett, 610 Terrace Dr., Columbia, TN 38401. 20.00.This is a revised edition of a book published in 1966 with many additional cemeteries and information included. All pertinent information on the tombstones was copied except Bible versesand epitaphs, unless unusual. Some of these cemeteries are so overgrown the authors suspectthey will be lost in a few years. The earliest marked graves date from the 1820's. There isa cemetery index and also a name index, directions to the cemeteries and obituaries and interviews included in this research tool for middle Tennessee. Hopefully more county cemeteryrecords like this one will be published in the future.GOODLOE GENEALOGY by Paul Miller Goodloe II.from author, P.O. Box 689, East Organge, NJ(1982.07019.Hard back, in full color. 55.50.500 pp.OrderThis book is beautifully bound; the front cover depicts the coat-of-arms and the back covershows a Goodloe plantation home in Virginia. Goodloe Genealogy is a comprehensive family history covering the English ancestors from 1250-1650. The author then moves on to the Americandescendants of George Goodloe, immigrant to Virginia in 1655, and includes work done by severalearlier family historians. Thousands of, Goodloes are identified and recorded in proper sequence, plus thousands of cousins bearing hundreds of other surnames, which are indexed.Photographs, explanatory notes and references make this a very rich volume for these Goodloedescendants.TWELVE FAMILIES . . An American Experience by William F. O'Dell.Indexed. 27.50.1981. Hard back. 520 pp.Order from the author, 5707 Junonia, Shell Point Village, Ft. Myers, FL 33908.Twelve Families is a unique publication in that it does more than list births, marriages anddeaths. The book presents ancestors as living entities in their historical settings. TheseScot, Dutch, and English immigrants are carried through the American Revolution, or to Canada,or through the Indian troubles, or on the trail westward to newer lands, or through the CivilWar, and nicely brought up to their modern day Canadian and American descendants. Over 2,000family members and 200 or more charts and photos bring the following names into family relatLonships: Gant/Ghent, Peerenboom, Riley, Rooks, Springer, Swing, Aikman, Bar/Baer, Green,Horning, Michell, Odell, Blair, White, Wright, Davis, Showers, Wilson and Carroll.MARRIAGES OF SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE, 1820-1858 compiled by Edythe Rucker whitley. 1982. Hardback. 139 pp. Indexed by Deborah G. Sherr. Order from the Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,111 water St., Baltimore, MD21202. 16.00.Mrs. Whitley continued her series of marriage records of Tennessee counties with this volume.She lists the 4952 bonds recorded in the register at the Shelby County Courtouse in Memphis,gLving only the names of the principals and dates of bond or marriage, as available there. Although there has been some confusion about the location of the original bonds, it is now knownthat they are housed in the holdings of the Memphis and Shelby County Archives. As always,variations of any name must be expected due to the difficulty in reading old penmandhip, butco·mparison may be made with Shelby County marriage records published by the Tennessee GenealogLcal Society in 1961.

"Ansearchin'" News168Book Reviews (continued)A MEMORIAL TO THE MELUGIN FAMILY IN AMERICA by Douthitt Melugin McKay.294 pp.Indexed.1981. Hard back.Order from the author, 618 Rayborn Dr., San Antonio, TX 78221. 28.00.The author dedicated the book to her Melugin ancestors, John 1754-1835, Joseph 1773-1845, Thomas1801-1850, Joseph Allen 1833-1911, William S. 1873-1963, and to those young people who left nodescendants because they gave their lives for the defense and development of their country.John, a veteran of the Revolution and War of 1812, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania andmoved to North Carolina and later Tennessee. Melugin descendants have been found in Kentucky,Illinois, Missouri, Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee. The appendix presents military accounts, wills, deeds and other legal records of early Melugins.MARRIAGES OF LAWRENCE COUNTY, TENNESSEE 1818-1854 compiled by Edythe Rucker Whitley.Hard back.MD 21202.110 pp. 15.00.Indexed.1982.Order from Genealogical PUblishing Co., 111 Water St., Baltimore,The records abstracted in the first section of this book, covering the years from 1818-1838,derive from the original bonds and licenses. Records appearing in the second section, coveringthe period from 1818-1854, are based on a marriage register. Both sets of records, totallingabout 2,500 marriages, provide the names of bride and groom and date of the bond or license andfrequently both. The index contains about 5,000 names.SEQUATCHIE COUNTY, TENNESSEE MARRIAGES 1858-1881 by James A. Douthat.Indexed.Order from the author, 2504 Kell Rd., Signal Mt., TN37377.1982. Soft back. 7.50.40 pp.The 10th Civil District of Bledsoe County and the 1st and 2nd Civil Districts of Marion Countywere attached to Hamilton County February 25, 1856. These three districts were then bound together as Sequatchie County in 1857. Marriages which were performed in this area prior tothese dates should be researched in Hamilton, Bledsoe or Marion Counties. This publicationgives the usual information: page number, date of the license, name of the clerk, name of thegroom and bride, by whom solemnized and date performed. Beginning in 1872 the name of thesecurity is given in place of the clerk.BLUE RIDGE HERITAGE, Burnett, Branscome, Hylton, Cox, Slaughter and Related Families by DorothyBurnett Peterson. 1982. Soft back. 274 pp. Indexed.3454 Scheibler Rd., Memphis, TN 38128. 21.00.Order from Mrs. Robert E. Peterson,BLUE RIDGE HERITAGE is the result of Dorothy Peterson's 30 years of research on her ancestorsof Patrick, Floyd and Carroll Counties, Virginia. These ancestors are Jeremiah Burnett,Richard Branscome, Matthew Cox, Elijah Hylton, Charles Mabry, Blackmore Hughes, and JohnSlaughter. There are short chapters on Mr. Peterson's Swedish and U.S. lines including Olsonand Erickson. This volume contains 106 pictures, charts, old letters, obituaries, wills, anddeeds. Over 5,200 persons are found in the full name index.MARRIAGES OF GIBSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE 1824-1860 compiled by Edythe Rucker Whitley.back. 173 pp. Indexed.21202. 17.50.1982. HardOrder from Genealogical Publishing Co., 111 Water St., Baltimore, MDThe marriage records for Gibson from 1824-1860 are on file at the courthouse in Trenton and arealso available on microfilm at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, as provided by the1965 Act of the Tennessee Legislature - drafted amd sponsored by the compiler - to preserve thecounty records in Tennessee. The records abstracted here derive from both bonds and licenses,each record giving the names of the bride and groom, the date of the bond or license, and thenames of bondsmen. The index contains 10,000 persons.1981. Hard back. 229 pp.Order from Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., Two Park Ave., New York, NY 10016. 37.50.HERALDRY, CUSTOMS, RULES AND STYLES by Carl-Alexander von Volborth.Indexed.In this beautifully executed book of color and black and white. the author explains what yousee on a coat of arms. He has been collecting information for years and is passing this on toreaders. He cautions us to not adopt the bearings of another family that happens to have thesame name without having proof of the necessary connection, This is truly a fascinating book.

Winter 1982169Book Reviews (continued)HISTORY OF MONROE COUNTY, TENNESSEE, Vol. I, Part 1; Vol. I, Part 2; and Vol. II by Sarah G. Cox.1980. Hard back. Indexed. Order from author, 1213 N. Main St., Sweetwater, TNVol. I, Part 1. 682 pp. 25.00 plus postage 1.50.Vol. I, Part 2. 817 pp. 25.00 plus postage 1.50.Vol. II.423 pp. 18.68 plus postage 1.32.37874.The author has done a magnificent job of recording the history of Monroe County, Tennessee.Vol. I, Part 1 of the history covers the pre-settlement period, formation of Monroe County,government and the Judiciary. Part 2 of Vol. I covers the history of each of the towns ofMonroe County except for Sweetwater which will be the beginning chapter of Vol. III to bepublished later. Included in the volumes are documents, petitions, tax lists and many wonderful pictures. Vol. II covers the history of education and schools, communications and postalservice. This reader found these books very interesting and informative and enjoyed most ofall the multitude of pictures of the families and homes of Monroe County, Tennessee.ROSTER OF THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS OF GEORGIA 1861-1865, INDEX by Lake Blackshear RegionalLibrary. 1982. Hard back. 515 pp. Indexed. Order from The Reprint Company, P.O. Box 5401,Spartanburg, SC29304. 31.25.The library staff of the Lake Blackshear Regional Library in Americus, Georgia has indexed thesix volumes of the Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865. This roster wascompiled for the State of Georgia by the Director of the Confederate Pension and Record Department of the Georgia Department of Archives and History. Approximately 80,000 names appear inthe Index as they are spelled in the Roster. Each entry contains a reference to both volumeand page number, but the original Roster must be viewed for any additional facts. We suggestyou write the Lake Blackshear Regional Library, Americus, GA 31709 further information.{THE KERSHNER FAMILIES OF MARYLAND 1731-1977, VOLUME III by Mary Kershner Maxwell and Ruth Bownds374 pp. Indexed. Order from Mrs. Maxwell, 1622 W. St. Vrain,Kershner. 1981. Soft back.Colorado Springs, CO 80904.Price not stated.This third volume continues the story of the Kershner family, extending it back to about 1570in Germany, and supplements the facts given in the first two volumes with many pictures anddata which have recently been uncovered. Of particular interest is the section pertaining toresearch in Germany, which revealed the home of the three Kershner brothers who immigrated tothis country in the 1730's. Many allied lines are included to the present time, and a fullname index includes the name of spouse, which aids the identification. For example: Kerschner,Peter b 1803 m Catharine Body 278; Kerschner, Peter Augusta Co., Virginia Census 169.ANCESTRAL ECHOES 1619-1981 by Julian Porter Pruett and Frances Pruett Limozaine. 1982. HardOrder from Frances P. Limozaine, 1125 Postell Rd., St. Simons Island,back. 210 pp. Indexed.GA 31522. 27.50.The principal families in Ancestral Echoes are Pruett, Griffin, Hamilton and Keenan. Relatedfamilies are Harden, Clement, Estes, Nelson, Scruggs, Motley, Peal, Sanders, Turner, Barbett,Craddock, Warmath and more. The authors follow each of these principal families and many oftheir children from Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, into Middle Tennessee and then intoWest Tennessee as the first settlers of what was to become Gibson County. Most of the familiesremained in the same general area of Gibson County after 1822, and only few traveled far untilabout 1915. A fold-out pedigree chart depicts family relationships of proven lines, one ofwhich covers nine generations.LANCASTER ANCESTORS, WRIGHT-KEMP-MALUGEN DESCENDANTS compiled by Ruth Fay Wright Kilgore.96 pp. Indexed. Order from author, 873 Robertson Academy Rd., Nashville, TNSoft back. 16.00.1982.37220.Mrs. Kilgore's research traces Lawrence Lancaster's descendants from the middle 1700's in Virginia and North Carolina to the present; much of the research is from Hickma

Polk Co. TN marriage bonds, queries, etc. THE LOST PALATINE, Gail Breitbard. Rt. 1. Box 1160. Estero. FL 33928. 12. This is a monthly newsletter (12 pp) with information about the history, genealogy and cul ture of America's Rhine Valley immigrants--theColonial Swiss, Germans, French Hu genots--whomade up 25% of our early immigrants.