All Tennessee counties are covered, each with pertinent genealogical data such as abstracts of wills and deeds, tombstone inscriptions, marriage records, and sketches of early settlers. The most important records include First Court Records of Washington District, the Marriage Records of Greene, Washington, Jefferson and Knox counties, and Revolutionary Soldiers of Roane County.

"This well-known and well-used book contains a considerable body of genealogical records from most of Tennessee's counties. . . .it is an extremely valuable tool, primarily for its index, which has one of the best clues to the specific county or counties of Tennessee in which a sought-for family may have lived at one time. No library offering services to Tennessee genealogical researchers should be without it."--Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Spring 1969).