A group of books was donated recently to our club library. Three of them are:

• “Pioneer Families of Eastern and Southern Kentucky” (1957, 286 pages) by William C. Kozee;
• “Wilson County, Tennessee Chancery Court Records, 1842 – 1892” (1995, 261 pages), compiled by Thomas E. Portlow;
• “Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770 – 1823: Indian, Spanish and other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina” (1982, 460 pages) by Dorothy Williams Potter.

All three are “source-books of genealogical data” in the words of one reviewer. The first is shelved in US/Kentucky and the second two in US/Tennessee.

None of them is available online, as far as I can tell, and one is out of print. The contents of one was available briefly as a database on Ancestry.com but has since disappeared. Not everything is in computers!

Thanks to whomever donated these; sorry but I didn’t get your name. Please let me know who you are if you’d like to be acknowledged in a future post.