Book Overview

This book chronicles thirty generations and a thousand years of Sanders (and Saunders) family evolution beginning before England's earliest days and ending across the Atlantic in colonial Virginia and later Kentucky.

Family Figures and Genealogy

Family figures are described in their own distinctive historical contexts, and an extensive genealogy focused on Old World lineage is appended.

Notes and Sources

Nearly a thousand chapter notes on sources and commentaries are furnished to assist readers interested in discovering their own ancestry.

Revisions and Expansions

This new book revises and expands our earlier edition by extending family history another five generations and two hundred years into the deep past, correcting earlier literature on this subject.

Family Coat of Arms

For the first time, the family coat of arms is decoded to learn its message.

Additional Content

The portrayal of family activity and circumstances before and during the American colonial period are improved, and an appendix of previously unpublished Sanders vital records for the seventeenth century is included.