This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: David Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/594.583.589.2.3.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I agree--you have to be very careful about self published or even formally published books on Tennessee genealogy. My observation is that the best of them is usually only 90% or so accurate. That is not a criticism of any particular book, but only to say that there is a lot of inference and speculation in genealogy. Sometime we are right and sometimes we are wrong.