Persons searching for Bahamian ancestors will want to study the various lists of names which appear throughout this work, including the census of inhabitants for New Providence in 1671, a mid-17th-century list of the first settlers of Eleuthra, a list of some 800 Loyalists who fled to the Bahamas from East Florida in 1784, a 1791 census of lot owners on Harbour Island, and various lists of Bahamian officials. Also includes biographical sketches of descent of more than 200 contemporary Bahamians of distinction.