Michael Kellar and Catharine Monroe of Fairfax County, Virginia 1760 - 2002
By: Susan Kellar Ratcliffe.
Publisher: Gateway Press; Book orders to S.K. Ratcliffe, 4415 San Cascina St., Las Vegas, NV 89135
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 693
Subjects: Keller family.; Kellar, Michael, ca. 1760-ca. 1816 -- Family.; Middle West -- Genealogy.
Genres: Genealogy.
Description: This 700-page, hardbound, limited edition, printed on acid-free paper by Gateway Press, Inc. includes the following:

Ten generations comprising 4,300 members of the Kellar Family;   
More than 870 autobiographies, biographies, news articles and obituaries;   
17-page, Family Members’ Resource Index – information sources for 600 family members;  
40 pages of photographs including Civil War soldiers, weddings, homes and family members;  
Numerous wills, deeds and documents including excerpts from letters, diaries and journals;  
Bible records, cemetery tables and collateral family lines;  
Bibliography and a 43-page Every-Name Index.
Notes: Editor Thomas Jay Kemp of Genealogy Librarian News, published weekly by the Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, highly recommended this book in the 15 January 2003 edition of his publication:

Ratcliffe, Susan Kellar.  Michael Kellar and Catharine Monroe of Fairfax County, Virginia.  Their Family and Descendants, 1760-2002.  Delaware, OH: Author, 2002.  693 p. Index.  $50.00  (St. Rt. 95, Mount Gilead, OH 43338). 
"This well-done genealogy thoroughly documents the Kellar family.  It is expertly presented and indexed.  There are detailed biographical sketches for nearly 900 of the 4,300 individuals cited in the book drawn from personal diaries, family correspondence and other sources.  The sharp, clear photographs are grouped at the back of the book.  There is a thorough, 43-page index and a comprehensive bibliography of the sources cited.  Susan Ratcliffe has done an outstanding job in bringing these resources together to document the Kellar family.  Highly recommended."