John Masur (d.1855) married Mary Kluckner, and the family immigrated in 1852 or 1853 (from Switzerland or Austria) to Lockport, Illinois. The parents died during a cholera epidemic, leaving three children (two boys and a girl--who located each other again as adults, and all decided to spell their surname Masear). Descendants lived in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Washington and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Saskatchewan, British Columbia and else- where in Canada.

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.