There are many American families with the names Cary or Carey and Estes. Numerous genealogy books have been written on all three. This book focuses on one branch of each family and traces them from the earliest known ancestors to the year of first publication (1939). A separate companion volume, Cary-Estes-Moore Genealogy extends to present generation (1981). The Cary and Estes families came to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Carys came from England; the Estes from Italy, by way of England. Helen Estes Seltzer edited and corrected this book in 1979.