In "The Ancestry of David Bracewell, " Carey Bracewell describes the fourteen-generation lineage traced from Edmund Bracewell, who was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, c. 1510, to Carey's son, David Bracewell, who was born in Texas in 1964. He outlines the career of the first American Bracewell, the Reverend Robert Bracewell (1611-1668), a Londoner, Oxford graduate, and "Cavalier"-one who was invited to Virginia to take charge of St. Luke's Church, now a national historic landmark.Following the lead of the Reverend Bracewell, Carey Bracewell explains how each successive generation has faithfully emulated his example of pioneering religious leadership. More than just a recitation of genealogical lineage, this family history tells the fascinating story of how the Bracewell men and women struggled and brought Christianity to the wilds of Tennessee, southern Illinois, Arkansas, and Texas. Among their many lasting accomplishments, one Bracewell ancestor, Richard Brazil, founded the oldest Baptist church in Arkansas. Bracewell published a genealogical journal on the Bracewell family and started the Braswell DNA Project. He was the first to discover the DNA profile that traces the family back to one man who lived in Bracewell, Yorkshire, in the late Middle Ages.

In general approach and content, this book resembles Alex Haley's best-selling novel, Roots, except that this work contains no fiction. It chronicles thirty generations and a thousand years of Sanders (and Saunders) family evolution beginning before England's earliest days and ending across the Atlantic in colonial Virginia and eventually frontier and later Kentucky. Family figures are portrayed in their own distinctive historical contexts and an extensive genealogy focused on old world lineage is appended. Nearly a thousand chapter notes on sources and names are furnished to assist readers interested in discovering their own ancestry.

Between 1992 and 1995, Barbara, Byron and Samuel Sistler transcribed the 1850 United States Census Schedules for Kentucky, in the original order, providing the names and ages of all individuals, followed by a single head-of-household index for the region covered by each volume. There are 14 volumes in the set, covering the entire state of Kentucky. This work, Volume 8, the regional volume of South West Kentucky, covers Clark, Estill, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Montgomery and Owsley Counties, and includes approximately 68,000 names. Paperback, (1995), repr. 2012, Index, 544 pp.

Recollections of the Life and History of the Hunt Family is a book about the life of John Edwin Hunt, Sr. He reflects on the history of the Hunt clan and gives an autobiographical account of his life, both personal and professional. "Senior" vividly recalls his antics while growing up in Echo, Alabama as well as his many friendships, business ventures (and adventures), family history, and his many accomplishments. The book takes you on a journey through his lifetime beginning with his great-grandfather's life through the present day Hunt family. Mr. Hunt was motivated to write this book so that his grandchildren would know of their "roots," and so they would be aware of the many circumstances that brought him to his present status in the community.