The Balbach/Ballbach, Balback/Balback, Balbaugh and allied families from various areas of Germany (North Baden, Wuerttemberg, East Prussia, Palatinate, Lithuania) and elsewhere down to the early 1600s up to the present. Members of these families immigrated to America at various times and settled in Missouri, Ohio, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Canada and elsewhere.

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.

Committee: S.R. Zug, John Herr, G.N. Falkenstein, J.G. Francis and D.C. Reber.