THE YOUNG FAMILIES OF EARLY GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE. Including Many Early Young Families of Surrounding Counties. Second Edition. Two Volumes. John E. Young. Hardbound, 2nd Ed. (2011), Maps, Source Material, Biblio., Index, 1167 pp.

It has been more than 25 years since the 1986 First Edition of this work was published. With the publication of this Second Edition, the number of major contributors -- as well as the book's content -- has more than quadrupled, and source material has increased exponentially, which now necessitates a two-volume printing for the more than 1,150 pages.

The Young Families of Early Giles County, Tennessee is a well-written, comprehensive, impeccably researched body of work, providing, in many instances, documentation of family lines down to the present day progeny. It contains approximately 10,000 biographies of the original 16 early Young pioneers of pre-1850 Giles and neighboring counties, and their descendants.

Mr. Young draws upon an abundance of reference material in developing the individual narratives, and drafts his conclusions in clear and succinct biographies. Source material, both private and public, include Vital Records (birth, death, marriage records); Cemetery and Gravestone Records; Baptismal and Christening Records; Bible Records; Census Records; Guardian Records; Jail and Prison Records; Information from Immediate Family; Military Records; Newspapers; Will, Probate, and Estate Records; Ship Passenger Lists and Port Arrival Information; Tax Records; Voter Registration Records; Court Records; Land and Property Records; and much more. To give the researcher a sense of the scale of this effort, there are currently in excess of 3,000 counties in the United States of which 779 have contributed source material to this work. A list of the contributing counties is included

Supplementing the genealogical biographies, the author has included, The Memoir of Major Thomas Young (1764-1848), which primarily focuses on Major Young's exploits during the Revolutionary War; and a transcription of the Petition to Lord Germain, dated 19 April 1782, which contains the names of those who signed the document and a list of approximately 300 Loyalists Casualties who were "murdered" by the Wigs during the Revolutionary War.

The surnames of some of the related or allied families in these two-volumes include: Abernathy, Baker, Brooks, Brown, Clark, Cook, Davis, East, English, Golightly, Harwell, Holley, Johnson, Jones, Kyle, Martin, Minatra, Mitchell, Moore, Robertson, Rogers, Sanders, Smith, Taylor, Tenery, Thompson, Walker, Watson, White, Willeford, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Worsham and Youg.

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

"This is an excellent example of genealogical research. The extensive family listings are made even more valuable by the inclusion of maps, the list of sources (all clearly indicated in each entry,) and the index. The two sections, "The Memoir of Major Thomas Young," and "Loyalist List: Petition to Lord Germain, dated 19 April 1782," are two hard-to-find resources that will be of great use to those researching the Young family lines." ---SUTRO LIBRARY, San Francisco, California (May 2011).

Book #: J-Y1229 
ISBN: 9781596412293