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. The following families are included in this volume:

Elzey and Fontaine of England, VA, and MD
Etheridge and related families: Cratchett, Holstead, Ives, Johnson, Mathias, Mohun, Murray, Nash, Portlock, Powers, Veale, and Yates of Norfolk
Ezell and related families: Baugh, Clarke, Crook, Delke, Dowdy, Eggleston, Harwell, Hill, Ijams, Johnson, Seat, Swann, Tarpley, and Woodward of Surry
Halbert and related families: Berry, Dumas, Gibson, and Gordon of VA
Parham of VA
Rose of Surry
Stewart-Stuart and Calvit of NC
Errata and Addenda: Cobb, Blakey, Elzey, Jordan, Hubbard, and Travis-Smallwood.