Historical Southern Families is a twenty-three-volume series of authoritative genealogies covering a broad spectrum of Southern families. The series was compiled by the late John Bennett Boddie, whose distinguished contributions to Southern genealogy were attested to by his induction as a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, and completed by his wife. Each volume contains a number of genealogies running from a few pages to as many as several dozen or more. Clearfield Company’s reprint edition of Historical Southern Families is now complete in twenty-three volumes.

Following are the main families found in this volume and the geographical locations associated with each of them.

Barham of VA, Bathurst of England and VA
Betts of VA and NC
Breazeale of VA and SC
Clayton of IL
Darden of GA
Drake of Devonshire, England, NC, KY and MS
Flake of VA
Gayle of SC, MS, and LA
Hamblin-Hamlin of VA
Harris of VA
Harrison of VA and AL
Herring-Bell-Bowen of NC, SC, GA, and FL
Hinton of VA and FL
Lawrence of VA and NC
Lodholz or Lothholz of Germany and Kansas
Mehringer of IL
Porter of VA and NC
Taylor of VA