Vol. 1 : Colonial families to the Revolutionary War period.-- Vol. 2 : Revolutionary War families to the mid-1800s. -- Vol. 3 : Descendants of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina families.

"This is a collection of 283 genealogies which I have compiled over a period of twenty years as a professional genealogist. ... While I have dealt with some of Oglethorpe's settlers, the vast majority of the genealogies included in this collection deal with Georgians who descend from settlers from other states."--Note to the Reader.

John Manning? Cain (1779-1876) was either born in Rutherford Co., N. C. or near Richmond, Va. He was buried in Gwinnett Co., Ga. He married Harriet Malinda (Milly?) Prickett/Pritchard in 1804 and they had five children. In 1825, he married Edna Poole (1783-ca. 1856) and they had one son. All the families of this book were intermarried. Descendants and relatives lived chiefly in the South.

Thomas Grimsley, who probably immigrated to Virginia, acquired land there in 1676 in old Rappahannock (later Richmond) County. He died after 1708. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and elsewhere.

Persons with the surname McRae, or several variations thereof, are listed by state. Information was taken mainly from U.S. censuses from 1790 to 1850.