Chiefly a record of some of the ancestors, descendants and relatives of John Henry Burns. He was born 12 Jan 1872 to Jonathan Burns II and Elisabeth Watson. He married Lexer Grant 21 Nov 1892. She was born 29 Aug 1877 to John W. Grant and Mary Cordelia McGahee. He died 26 Oct 1957. She died 16 Oct 1949. They were the parents of eight children.

This "Supplement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress" lists all genealogies in the Library of Congress that were catalogued between 1972 and 1976, showing acquisitions made by the Library in the five years since publication of the original two-volume Bibliography. Arranged alphabetically by family name, it adds several thousand works to the canon, clinching the Bibliography's position as the premier finding-aid in genealogy.

Includes entries for maps and atlases.