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.

John Brubaker (ca. 1750-ca. 1825) was born in Germany and probably immigrated to America as a boy with his parents. He married Anna Myers, daughter of Jacob Meyer, in 1774, in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They had eight children, 1775-1794. The family migrated to Franklin County, Virginia, ca. 1789; and moved to Botetourt County, Virginia, ca. 1804. Descendants lived in Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, California, and elsewhere.

The immigrant Johann George Gelsinger and his son John from Hessen to Pennsylvania in 1754; 1560 direct descendants. Joseph Friend from North Carolina and Kentucky to Illinois in 1829. Related families of Oglesby (from Tennessee & North Carolina), Haney (from Kentucky, Virginia, & Pennsylvania), two Williams families (Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, & North Carolina) settled in Illinois by 1830- 1840; the Thompson family (Kentucky & Virginia) were in Illinois Territory by about 1804-05.