The Families series contains the material that Adlai Yates collected on many families of Louisiana and the other Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Most of the material is notes Yates took from various federal, state and county records such as censuses, deeds and wills. However, some of the information also came from other individuals working on genealogy. Some correspondence, newspaper articles and funeral records are also included in this series. Much material can be found on the family names of Allgood, Cooper, Culp, Cutrer, Gideon, Greer, Jackson, Murphy, Patty, Richardson, Robbins, Smith and Yates. It should be noted that research material exists on numerous other family names.