I agree that the two volume set has more stories and people in them than the book published later. The Birmingham Public Library has the set as well as the other book. Here is the Birmingham Library's catalog listing for the two-vol set: Author Duffee, Mary Gordon, 1844-1920. Title Sketches of Alabama , Jones Valley / by Mary Gordon Duffee. Publisher Birmingham, Ala. : Works Progress Administration, 1937. Here is their catalog entry for the other book: Author Duffee, Mary Gordon, 1844-1920. Title Sketches of Alabama, being an account of the journey from Tuscaloosa to Blount Springs through Jefferson County on the old stage roads, now first published in book form. Prepared for the press, with introd. and notes, by Virginia Pounds Brown and Jane Porter Nabers. Illustrated with advertisements from the Jones Valley times of 1854. Publisher University, University of Alabama Press [1970] Online Catalog for Birmingham Library is at http://catalog.jclc.org/search/ Home page is at http://www.bplonline.org/ Hope this helps, Melba Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: <Crop53@aol.com> To: <alblount@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 7:36 AM Subject: [ALBLOUNT] "Sketches of Alabama" edited > The Two books that Melba Clark talks about are very full of Jefferson and > Blount County History of the people. Here I found the father of Robert > Bartley > Montgomery was Washington Montgomery not his brother Francis. So I > purchased > the Edited book that Robin talks about. Brown and Nabors edited... this > book > so that it does not carry the old stories that Mary Gordon Duffee tells > of > her travels and visits in the home of the people of the times. You have > missed what we would want of the writings if you do not read the full > writing in > the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age paper that the WPA recorded in the two > books. > They are great genealogy books.