Thomas Bell (ca. 1731-1795) married Jane and immigrated to South Carolina before the Revolutionary War. Descendants lived in South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, California 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.

Keelon Pedicord was born 20 November 1783 in Hope, Stokes County, North Carolina. He married Grizella Ledford in 1810. They had nine children. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Missouri, California and elsewhere. Also traces the descendants of John Petticourte (b. ca. 1699), son of William Petticourte of Frederick County, Maryland, as the possible ancestors of Keelon Pedicord.