Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.
John R. Chapman (b.ca.1796) was born in the state of New York, and lived in Moscow (now Leicester), New York in 1850 and 1860. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, New England, Michigan and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England (with some nobility).
Foske Juergens Helgens (1821-1901) was born in Strackholt, Germany. She married Jann Jannes Zimmermann in 1845, and they had three children before he died in 1850. Foske then married her brother-in-law, Harm Jannes Zimmermann, and they had at least five children. After his death she came to the United States about 1871 with at least one child. The other children had already arrived. The family settled chiefly in Gibson City, Ford County, Illinois. Descendants and relatives lived in Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Arizona, Washington and elsewhere. Many descendants spelled the surname Zimmerman.
This work concentrates upon families with a strong connection to Virginia and Kentucky, most of which are traced forward from the eighteenth, if not the seventeenth, century. The compiler makes ample use of published sources some extent original records, and the recollections of the oldest living members of a number of the families covered. Finally. The essays reflect a balanced mixture of genealogy and biography, which makes for interesting reading and a substantial number of linkages between as many as six generations of family members.