This mainstay of Tennessee genealogy has an immense amount of genealogical data, which is not confined to Tennessee but reaches out to the Carolinas, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, and other Southern states as well. Over 6,000 names are in the index, with some names having as many as fifty references. All Tennessee counties are covered, each with pertinent genealogical data, such as abstracts of wills and deeds, tombstone inscriptions, marriage records, and sketches of early settlers.