Hi Linda: Thought maybe I should make sure my family is in the book before sending a check. Any reference to Thomas Dotson (in Grainger until 1819), his son, Samuel W. Dotson, (who married Frances Nash), Thomas Nash, or Dicey Mallicoat Nash? Elaine Dodson Thomas LRHogan@aol.com wrote: > There are 20 references to the Bunch family but no Sally or Joseph. > This book is very hard to do look ups in....unlike the Carter or Johnson > County Heritage books. > Some of these heritage books indexes are arranged like this. > > Hicks, 2, 4, 6, 8, 20, 22, > (one book had 3 columns of references to the Hicks family...a real nightmare > to try to find anything). > > And two of the heritage books that I have just has the page number....at > least Grainger put numbers on each article and that does make it a little > easier to do look up. > However, Carter County and Johnson County did it this way: > Hicks: > Mary 2, 5; Joe 5, Sarah 6, > > Having the first name makes it so much easier for the person doing the > lookups. They tell me the publishers made them do this themselves by hand > but these books are for all times and really are a lot nicer with this first > names in the index. Hope I did not offend anyone...it's just my opinion. > Linda