This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

Ambrose Mills was born in England in 1722. He was brought to America in 1729. He and his descendants lived mainly in North Carolina.

William Hannon (1730s-1776) was probably born in Virginia. He married in Virginia and settled in North Carolina by the 1760s where he was the father of a large family. In 1776 William and all but three of his children were killed by Cherokee Indians. One of his sons, Edwin Hannon (1766-1825) married Caroline Earle and was the father of twelve children. Descendants live in North Carolina and other parts of the United States.