Periodical serving as a clearinghouse for genealogical data on various families from the Southern United States, primarily Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Ozark region. Includes information about their ancestors who came from Austria, Bavaria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Normandy, Prussia, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and Wales. Some immigrated...

P's and Q's refer to pedigrees and queries. The Cotton Belt states comprise Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.

This publication was quarterly until vol. 5, no. 1 (1988), after which it became annual.

Contents of folders vary from a few leaves to ca. 300 leaves and may contain genealogical correspondence, transcripts of Bible records, transcripts from public records, clippings from printed materials, pedigree charts, family group sheets, genealogical sketches, etc. Folders may also contain material on related families. Families are chiefly from South Carolina but include some from North Carolina, Virginia, and elsewhere, especially in the Southern...