This book is not just a genealogy book. It is also a personal history of the people and their plantation homes. It can be used as a guidebook when traveling to their plantations located mostly in All Saints Waccamaw Parish, Georgetown County, South Carolina. It also contains over 99 pages of photos with many pictures of the plantation owners themselves and their families. This book is a comprehensive study of the Rice Planter culture and people along the Waccamaw River. This book can also be used to research and find important people of the Rice Planter Low Country class in South Carolina. The importance of this work is that it addresses five areas of interest to most readers: genealogy, history, photos & Ilustrations, plantations, and a guidebook.