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Tennessee Birth, Marriage, & Death Records
Tennessee Birth Indexes & Birth Records
- Tennessee – Tennessee Births and Christenings, 1828-1939, index
- Tennessee – Tennessee, Birth Records (ER Series), 1908-1912, index & images
- Tennessee – Tennessee, Church Records, 1816-1995, index links to images (possible baptisms, marriages, burials)
- Tennessee – Ancestors are where you find them : continued from last quarter (vital, military, land)
- Tennessee – Bible records and marriage bonds (vital, probate)
- Tennessee – Births (enumerator record series), 1908-1912
- Tennessee – From the mail box
- Tennessee – Genealogical collection
- Tennessee – Guide to public vital statistics in Tennessee
- Tennessee – History of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod (vital, church)
- Tennessee – Scrapbooks and collections, 1800’s – 1900’s
- Tennessee – Tennessee births and deaths 1908 through 1912
- Tennessee – Tennessee genealogical records, vols. 3, 5, 6
- Tennessee – Tennessee records
- Tennessee – Tennessee, birth records, 1879-1916
- Fayette County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Hardin County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Hawkins County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Henderson County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Johnson County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- McNairy County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Perry County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Putnam County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Montgomery County – Tennessee, Montgomery County Delayed Birth Certificates, 1880-1910, index links to images
- Van Buren County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
Tennessee Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records
- US – United States Western States Marriage Index, index
- US – United States, GenealogyBank Historic Newspaper Marriages, 1815-2011, index links to images
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images
- Tennessee – Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950, index & images
- Tennessee – Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002, index
- Tennessee – Tennessee Church Marriages, 1810-1965, index & images
- Tennessee – Tennessee, Church Records, 1816-1995, index links to images (possible baptisms, marriages, burials)
- Tennessee – Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950, index
- Tennessee – Tennessee Civil Marriages, 1838-1888, index coming soon
- Tennessee – Ancestors are where you find them : continued from last quarter(vital, military, land)
- Tennessee – Bible records and marriage bonds(vital, probate)
- Tennessee – From the mail box
- Tennessee – Genealogical collection
- Tennessee – Guide to public vital statistics in Tennessee
- Tennessee – History of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod (vital, church)
- Tennessee – Marriage book, Lawrence Co., Ala. Tax list, Orange Co., N.C. Deed Bk., Orange Co., N.C. Miscellaneous marriages, Ala., N.C., Tenn.
- Tennessee – Orena V. Grant genealogical collection, marriage and cemetery records, from Southeastern, North, and South Central states
- Tennessee – Scrapbooks and collections, 1800’s – 1900’s
- Tennessee – Some marriages of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia
- Tennessee – Taylor Marriages in Tennessee [1761-1894]
- Tennessee – Tennessee civil marriages, 1838-1888
- Tennessee – Tennessee genealogical records, vols. 3, 5, 6
- Tennessee – Tennessee marriages reported In the Memphis, Arkansas, and Quachita Christian Advocate — 1853-1861
- Tennessee – Tennessee records
- Tennessee – Tennessee records : Bible records and marriage bonds
- Bedford County – Marriage records : Bedford, Franklin, and Greene counties in Tennessee
- Cocke County – Tennessee, Cocke County Records, 1860-1930, images (marriages 1870-1929, wills 1860-1929, court 1860-1930)
- Fayette County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Franklin County – Marriage records : Bedford, Franklin, and Greene counties in Tennessee
- Greene County – Marriages, – Green County, Tennessee [1787-1834]
- Greene County – Marriage records : Bedford, Franklin, and Greene counties in Tennessee
- Hardin County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Hawkins County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Henderson County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Jackson County – Tennessee, Jackson County Records, 1801-1974, index & images (marriages 1888-1974, chancery & circuit courts 1801-1962)
- Johnson County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- McNairy County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Perry County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Putnam County – Tennessee, Putnam County Marriages, 1930-1961
- Putnam County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Van Buren County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- White County – Tennessee, White County Records, 1809-1975, index & images (marriages 1850-1975, chancery court 1825-1937, circuit court 1809-1900 – wills, estates, divorces)
Tennessee Death Indexes & Death Records
- US – United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961, index
- US – United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, index & images
- US – United States Korean War Dead and Army Wounded, 1950-1953, index
- US – United States Social Security Death Index, index
- US – United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
- Tennessee – Tennessee Deaths and Burials, 1874-1955, index
- Tennessee – Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966, index & images
- Tennessee – Ancestors are where you find them : continued from last quarter(vital, military, land)
- Tennessee – Bible records and marriage bonds(vital, probate)
- Tennessee – Deaths (enumerator record series), 1908-1912
- Tennessee – Federal mortality census schedules and related indexes : Tennessee; 1850-1860; 1880
- Tennessee – From the mail box
- Tennessee – Genealogical collection
- Tennessee – Guide to public vital statistics in Tennessee
- Tennessee – History of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod (vital, church)
- Tennessee – Scrapbooks and collections, 1800’s – 1900’s
- Tennessee – Tennessee ancestors: the brave and the dead, probate and death records of early middle Tennessee, 1780-1805
- Tennessee – Tennessee births and deaths 1908 through 1912
- Tennessee – Tennessee genealogical records, vols. 3, 5, 6
- Tennessee – Tennessee records
- Davidson County – Tennessee, Davidson County, Death Records, 1900-1913, index
- Fayette County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Hardin County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Hawkins County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Henderson County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Johnson County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- McNairy County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Memphis County – 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee
- Perry County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Putnam County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Shelby County – 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee
- Shelby County – Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Board of Health Death Records, 1848-1913, index links to images
- Van Buren County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
Cemeteries
- US – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
- US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
- US – United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969, index links to images
- US – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
- US – BillionGraves Index, index links to images
- US – Find A Grave Index, index links to images
- Tennessee – Orena V. Grant genealogical collection, marriage and cemetery records, from Southeastern, North, and South Central states
- Davidson County – Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville City Cemetery Records, 1843-1962, index links to images
- Blanche Cemetery
- Cemeteries of Tennessee for Carter, Jefferson, Johnson, Washington counties
- Cemetery records of land between the lakes (betwixt the rivers) : 1814-1973
- Cemetery records of land between the lakes : betwixt the rivers, 1814-1973
- Church, cemetery, bible, and family records from Tennessee
- Family cemeteries in Weakley Co. Tenn. : Hall cemetery
- Family cemeteries in Weakley Co. Tenn. : Somers cemetery
- Genealogical collection
- The Kentucky Lake cemetery relocation project
- Kentucky Lake Reservoir cemeteries
- Middle Tennessee cemeteries
- Norris Reservoir grave removals
- [Prosperity Cemetery and Blair Cemetery on Coldwater Road]
- Records of southern families : from bibles, tombstones, sketches, newspapers, 1740-1957
- Records of Southern families from bibles, tombstones, sketches, newspapers, 1740-1957
- The Sell family Cemetery
- [A Tennessee Cemetery]]
- Tennessee miscellaneous cemeteries
- Tennessee records : tombstone inscriptions and manuscripts, historical and biographical
- Watauga Reservoir cemeteries : TVA grave removal records
- Watts Bar Reservoir cemeteries
- Master file relocation card index for grave and cemetery removal and relocation, 1934-1954
Funeral Homes
- Tennessee – Tennessee funeral home records index, 1904-2001
Obituaries
- United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index links to images
- United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images
- United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
- Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index links to images
- [Hickman County, Tennessee Obituaries]
- Maury County obituaries
- [Maury County, Tennessee Obituaries]
- [Montgomery County, Tennessee Obituaries]
- [Obituaries from the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee]
- Tennessee obituaries from old newspapers – Giles County
- Tennessee obituaries, 1990-2014
- [Wayne County, Tennessee Obituaries]
Wills & Probate
- Tennessee – Bible records and marriage bonds (vital, probate)
- Tennessee – Tennessee ancestors: the brave and the dead, probate and death records of early middle Tennessee, 1780-1805
- Tennessee ancestors : the brave and the dead, probate and death records of early middle Tennessee, 1780-1805
- Tennessee genealogical records, vols. 3, 5, 6
- Tennessee Probate Court Books, 1795-1927
- Tennessee Probate Court Files, 1795-1955
- Tennessee, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872
- Tennessee, probate court books, 1795-1927
- Tennessee, probate court files, 1795-1927
- Tennessee, Putnam County Records, 1842-1955
- Bible records and marriage bonds
- Cocke County – Tennessee, Cocke County Records, 1860-1930, images (marriages 1870-1929, wills 1860-1929, court 1860-1930)
- Hardin County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Hawkins County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Haywood County, Tennessee – abstracts of will book I
- Index to Giles County, Tenn. wills 1815-1860, miscellaneous wills
- Index to wills of Hawkins Co., Tenn. 1789-1850
- Jackson County – Tennessee, Jackson County Records, 1801-1974, index & images (marriages 1888-1974, chancery & circuit courts 1801-1962)
- Major index to wills & inventories of Tennessee at the D.A.R. Library, Washington, D.C., most of which were compiled by the WPA
- McNairy County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- Putnam County – Fayette, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Johnson, McNairy, Perry, Putnam, Van Buren counties, Tennessee vital records, 1908-1939;* Hardin, Hawkins, McNairy & Putnam counties, Tennessee wills, 1865-1967*
- The will of Isaac Lincoln
- White County – Tennessee, White County Records, 1809-1975, index & images (marriages 1850-1975, chancery court 1825-1937, circuit court 1809-1900 – wills, estates, divorces)
- Will of Mary Lincoln
- Wills, 1655-1871, 1917
Tennessee Residence Records
Census
- 1787-1791 – Partial census of 1787 to 1791 of Tennessee as taken from the North Carolina land grants
- 1797 – Persons residing in the Cherokee Country, not natives of the land– 1797
- 1810 – United States Census, 1810, index & images
- 1810 – Index to 1810 Maury County census(reconstructed)
- 1810 – Tennessee census reports
- 1810-1840 – Tennessee, 1810 thru 1840 federal census
- 1820 – United States Census, 1820, index & images
- 1820 – Tennessee census reports
- 1820 – Tennessee census reports for 1820
- 1820 – Tennessee, 1810 thru 1840 federal census
- 1820-1840 – Tennessee : Census indexes 1820, 1830, 1840
- 1827-1833 – [Index to Occupant entry book for Weakley county, Tennessee 1827-1833]
- 1830 – United States Census, 1830, index & images
- 1830 – 1830 census of Tennessee
- 1830 – 1830 Census of Tennessee: Continued from Vol. 1, No. 2.
- 1830 – 1830 census, East Tennessee
- 1830 – 1830 census, West Tennessee
- 1830 – Tennessee, 1810 thru 1840 federal census
- 1830 – United States census 1830 for Tennessee
- 1835 – Cherokee Nation east, roll of 1835
- 1840 – United States Census, 1840, index & images
- 1840 – 1840 – in Montgomery County [census]
- 1840 – 1840 census of Perry County, Tennessee
- 1840 – Dyer County, Tennessee 1840 census
- 1840 – Index to 1840 census – Madison County, Tennessee : contains what is now part of Crockett and Chester Counties, Tennessee
- 1840 – Index to 1840 census – White County, Tennessee
- 1840 – Index to 1840 census, Hardeman County, Tennessee
- 1840 – Index to 1840 census, Knox County, Tennessee
- 1840 – Index to 1840 census, Knox County, Tennessee
- 1840 – Index to 1840 census, Sevier County, Tennessee
- 1840 – Index to 1840 census, Wayne County, Tennessee
- 1840 – Index To 1840 Census, Williamson County, Tennessee
- 1840 – Index to 1840 Obion County, Tennessee Census
- 1840 – Index to the 1840 census – Hardin County, Tenn.
- 1840 – Index to the 1840 census of Haywood county, Tennessee
- 1840 – Index to the 1840 Census of Weakley county, Tennessee
- 1840 – Tennessee – 1840 Census records: Welch family in Marshall County
- 1840 – Tennessee, 1810 thru 1840 federal census
- 1848-1970 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
- 1850 – United States Census, 1850, index & images
- 1850 – United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, index & images
- 1850 – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850, index & images
- 1850-1860, 1880 – Federal mortality census schedules and related indexes : Tennessee; 1850-1860; 1880
- 1850 – 1850 Census – Tennessee : index to the surname Jackson
- 1850 – Federal mortality census schedules and related indexes : Tennessee; 1850-1860; 1880
- 1850 – Index to 1850 Census of Memphis (Shelby County), Tennessee
- 1850 – Index to 1850 census of Memphis (Shelby County), Tennessee
- 1850 – Index to 1850 census of Memphis (Shelby County), Tennessee
- 1850 – Roane County, Tennessee, U.S. Census 1850
- 1850 – Shelby County, Tennessee Index to 1850 Federal census
- 1850 – Shelby County, Tennessee index to 1850 federal census
- 1850 – Tennesseans by birth – residents of Kentucky in 1850
- 1850 – Tennessee, 1850 federal census
- 1850-1860 – Owsley charts : master charts compiled from the unpublished census, 1850-1860
- 1850-1880 – 1850-1880 Haywood county, Tennessee census: Newsom and Etheridge families
- 1860 – United States Census, 1860, index & images
- 1860 – Tennessee, 1860 federal census
- 1860 – The Census — 1860 Tennessee / Index to Jenkins Genealogies and Histories
- 1870 – United States Census, 1870, index & images
- 1870 – Shelby County, Tennessee Index To 1850 Federal Census
- 1870 – Tennessee, 1870 federal census
- 1880 – United States Census, 1880, index & images
- 1880 – Federal mortality census schedules and related indexes : Tennessee; 1850-1860; 1880
- 1880 – Tennessee, 1880 federal census
- 1885-1940 – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
- 1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
- 1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images
- 1900 – Tennessee, 1900 federal census
- 1908-1910 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
- 1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images
- 1910 – Tennessee, 1910 federal census
- 1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images
- 1920 – Tennessee, 1920 federal census
- 1930 – United States Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930, index
- 1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images
- 1930 – Tennessee, 1930 federal census
- 1930 – Tennessee, 1930 federal census
- 1930 – The 1930 census of Wayne County, Tennessee
- 1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images
- 1940 – Tennessee, 1940 population census
- Census records and Cherokee muster rolls
Directories
- Directory of Civil War monuments and memorials in Tennessee
- Directory of libraries of Tennessee
- Reference book and key containing ratings of merchants, manufacturers and traders generally
Emigration/Immigration/Migration
- United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images
- United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index
- United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index
- Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky mixed relocation files : NARA, Record Group (RG) 142 (Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority), 1937-1954
Land & Property
- US – United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court)
- Tennessee – Ancestors are where you find them : continued from last quarter (vital, military, land)
- Tennessee, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872
- Tennessee, Putnam County Records, 1842-1955
- Alabama population relocation files, 1934-1954
- Ancestors are where you find them : continued from last quarter
- Cherokee & Creek Indians returns of property left in Tennessee and Georgia, 1838
- Commissioners report, boundry line, Kentucky and Tennessee, 1857
- Field notes made by W. L. Henderson, who was appointed under an act of 1820 to lay off the lands west of the Tennessee Acts, 1819-1820
- Final record books, 1803-1850; land claim records, 1807-1820
- Fourth survey distr[i]ct of Tennessee, 1808-1810, John McClellan, surveyor : Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Knox, Overton, Rhea, and Roane counties, Tennessee
- Grants south of Walker’s line
- Land grants (Hawkins County, Tennessee), 1784-1819
- Land grants, 1775-1905, 1911
- Land grants, vols. A-B, 1785-1793
- Land records, North Carolina and Tennessee; indexes, 1600-1959
- List of North Carolina land grants in Tennessee 1778-1791
- North Carolina and Tennessee; revolutionary warrants, 1783-1837
- North Carolina land grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791
- North Carolina land grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791
- North Carolina population relocation files, 1934-1954
- North Carolina state records: N.C. Land grants in Tennessee – extracted from Carolina Genealogist
- North Carolinians in Tennessee
- Original deeds
- Owsley charts: master charts compiled from the unpublished census, 1850-1860
- Partial census of 1787 to 1791 of Tennessee as taken from the North Carolina land grants
- Records of the field offices for the state of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG 105, M1911
- Robert Armstrong’s survey book of Cherokee lands : lands granted from the treaty of 27 February 1819
- Selected records of the Tennessee Field Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, T142
- Surveyor’s books, 1814-1829
- Tennessee – abstract of deeds : [Welch, Welsh, and Walsh, 1790-1852]
- Tennessee genealogical records, vols. 3, 5, 6
- Tennessee population relocation files, 1934-1954
- Tennessee, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872
- Warren County, Tennessee, deed book E (contd) : January 1824 – May 1826
- Warren County, Tennessee, deed book E : January 1824 – May 1826
- West Tennessee district, land grants, book l
- West Tennessee District, land grants, book 1A
- West Tennessee district, land grants, book 1
- West Tennessee district, land grants, book 1A
- West Tennessee District, land grants, book 1A
- West Tennessee District, land grants, book 1A
- West Tennessee district, land grants, book l
- West Tennessee district, land grants, book l
- West Tennessee district, land grants, book l
- West Tennessee district, land grants, book l
- West Tennessee district, land grants, book l : continued from last quarter
- Index to Bledsoe County, Tennessee deeds
- Index To Bledsoe County, Tennessee Deeds : [Vol. I – 1797-1838]
- Index to Bledsoe county, Tennessee deeds : [Vol. I – 1797-1938]
- Tennessee land and property : a register of contents of the various counties of Tennessee
Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers
- Tennessee: index to topographic and other map coverage
- Tennessee and Tennesseans
- Tennessee blue book and official directory
- The empire that Missouri Pacific serves
- Place names of Tennessee
- The annals of Tennessee to the end of the eighteenth century: comprising its settlement : as the Watauga association, from 1769 to 1777; a part of North-Carolina, from 1777 to 1784; the state of Franklin, from 1784-1788; a part of North-Carolina, from 1788-1790; the territory of the U. States, south of the Ohio, from 1790 to 1796; the state of Tennessee, from 1796 to 1800
- Eastin Morris’ Tennessee gazetteer 1834 and Matthew Rhea’s Map of the state of Tennessee 1832
Naturalization & Citizenship
- United States, New England Petitions for Naturalization Index, 1791-1906, index & images
- Declaration of Intention: [Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, Leon Schnuder]
- Minute books for the U.S. District Court for West Tennessee, 1797-1839 and of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1839-1865
- Naturalization records (Chattanooga, Tennessee), 1907-1933 : NARA publication M1547
- Naturalization records (Greenville, Tennessee), 1913-1944
- Naturalization records (Knoxville, Tennessee), 1891-1929; index, 1907-1941 : NARA RG 21
- Index to naturalization records of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1888-1955 : NARA RG21 publication M1611
Passports
- United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images
Pensions
- United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
- United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
- Confederate pension applications: soldiers and widows, 1891- ca. 1965
- Tennessee, Confederate pension applications, soldiers and widows, 1891-1959
- Tennessee, Confederate pension applications, soldiers and widows, 1891-1959
Taxation
- Assessment lists of the United States Direct Tax Commission for the district of Tennessee
- Early east Tennessee taxpayers
- Fayette County, Tennessee tax list 1836
- Fayette County, Tennessee tax list 1836
- Fayette County, Tennessee tax list 1836
- Fayette County, Tennessee tax list 1836
- Henry County, Tennessee 1836 Tax Record
- Report of Taxable Property in the State of Franklin : Year 1787 [ Names, land, white souls, black souls, L, S. 2 list. ]
- Early records of Grainger County, Tennessee
- Indexing files
Workhouses/Poorhouses/Soldier Homes
Tennessee Daily Life Records
Alumni, Schools, & Yearbooks
- Light from many candles: a history of pioneer women in education in Tennessee
- Meigs County, Tennessee – record of the reports of common schools for 1838
- Records of the Superintendant of Education for the state of Tennessee, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M1000
- Selected records of the Tennessee Field Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, T142
- Tennessee, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872
- Some pioneer preachers and teachers of Tennessee
Bible Records
- Bible record collection, ca. 1700-1970
- Bible records of families of east Tennessee and their connections from other areas
- Church, cemetery, bible, and family records from Tennessee
- Family Bible records
- Family Bible records (continued)
- Mid-south Bible records
- Miscellaneous Bible and cemetery records
- Miscellaneous records, 1968-69
- Records of southern families : from bibles, tombstones, sketches, newspapers, 1740-1957
- Records of Southern families from bibles, tombstones, sketches, newspapers, 1740-1957
- Tombstone inscriptions from Masonic Cemetery of El Paso, Texas : and family bible records of Tennessee, Alabama, 1797-1954
Bibliography
- Checklist of Tennessee imprints, 1841-1850
- List of Tennessee imprints, 1793-1840, in Tennessee libraries
- Tennessee books, a preliminary guide
Biography
- Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas – Southern Publishing Company, New York – 1880
- Biographical directory: Tennessee General Assembly, 1796-1969 : [preliminary sketches]
- A book of the South : featuring Alabama, Florida, Georgia, the Tennessee Valley
- The book of three states : notable men of Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee
- Buell-Brien papers
- Catholic women of Tennessee, 1937-1956 : a twentieth anniversary history of the Nashville Diocesan Council of the National Council of Catholic Women
- Early times in middle Tennessee
- The Farris family of Virginia, Tennessee and Texas, 1607-1950
- FreeJoe : a story of love, faith and perserverance
- Historic Tennessee : a brief historical and biographical sketch of Tennessee and early Tennesseans prepared especially for busy readers ; profusely illustrated with many original maps and engravings
- History of Fentress County, Tennessee, the old home of Mark Twain’s ancestors
- History of Fentress County, Tennessee, the old home of Mark Twain’s ancestors
- A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
- Library of American lives. Tennessee ed. : A source edition recording the contemporary history of the nation through the medium of the life history of its most constructive contributors. Chronicling the genealogical and memorial records of its prominent families and personages
- Light from many candles : a history of pioneer women in education in Tennessee
- Memoirs
- More Tennessee biographies
- North Carolinians in Tennessee : part II
- Notable men of Tennessee : personal and genealogical with portraits
- Notable men of Tennessee, from 1833 to 1875 : their times and their contemporaries
- Records of southern families : from bibles, tombstones, sketches, newspapers, 1740-1957
- Records of Southern families from bibles, tombstones, sketches, newspapers, 1740-1957
- Sketches of prominent Tennesseans : containing biographies and records of many of the families who have attained prominence in Tennessee
- Sketches of the bench and bar of Tennessee
- Some pioneer preachers and teachers of Tennessee
- Tennesseans in central Texas
- Tennesseans In Texas
- Tennessee and Tennesseans
- Tennessee records : tombstone inscriptions and manuscripts, historical and biographical
- Tennessee templars : a register of names, with biographical sketches of the Knights Templar of Tennessee, and brief histories of the grand and subordinate commanderies
- Tennessee, a history, 1673-1932
- Tennessee, the volunteer state, 1760-1923
- Who’s who in Tennessee : a biographical reference book of notable Tennesseans of today
- Who’s who in Tennessee : a reference edition recording the biographies of contemporary leaders in Tennessee with special emphasis on their achievements in making the volunteer state one of America’s greatest
- Who’s who in the central states : a biographical dictionary of leading men and women of the Central States
- Index to questionnaires of Civil War veterans
Business Records & Commerce
Church
- Bro. Samuel DeWhitt (1792-1853); the Union Christian Church; and Gamaliel, Monroe County, Kentucky
- Tennessee church marriages, 1810-1965
- Tennessee, births and christenings, 1828-1939
- Tennessee, deaths and burials, 1874-1955
- Tennessee, marriages, 1796-1950
- Guide to church vital statistics in Tennessee
- Inventory of the church and synagogue archives of Tennessee : Jewish congregations
- Inventory of the church archives of Tennessee : Tennessee Baptist Convention, Nashville Baptist Association
- Inventory of the church archives of Tennessee : Tennessee Baptist Convention, Ocoee Baptist Association
- Annual conference minutes, 1879-1892
- Arthur’s in Tennessee/Oregon/Texas
- Bro. Samuel DeWhitt (1792-1853); the Union Christian Church; and Gamaliel, Monroe County, Kentucky
- Church records, 1849-1922
- Church records, 1952-1961
- Church register
- Church, cemetery, bible, and family records from Tennessee
- Constitution and proceedings, 1845
- From the diary of the Reverend Benjamin O. Davis : while he was in the Holston River Conference of the Methodist Church (1832-1925)
- Genealogical collection
- History of middle Tennessee baptists : with special reference to Salem, New Salem, Enon and Wiseman Associations ; containing sketches of associations, churches, deceased ministers and deacons, with ministerial directory; also chapters on separate baptists, christian baptists, feet washing
- History of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod : embracing an account of the causes, which gave rise to its organization and name; its position and confessional basis; object of its organization; work, development, and various session; its policy; and its future
- Marriages, births and deaths from Virginia and east Tennessee Lutheran Church in America records
- May’s Hill Branch Church records (Tennessee), 1900-1919
- Methodist Churches in Tennessee, 1866-1870
- Minutes of the … annual meeting
- Minutes of the … annual session of the Eastern District Association of Denominated Primitive Baptists
- Minutes of the … annual session of the Mulberry Gap Association
- Minutes of various meetings of the North Carolina and Tennessee Synods of the Lutheran Church
- Miscellaneous loose papers
- Pre-convention bulletin
- Quarterly conference minutes, 1864-1899
- Quarterly conferences of the Memphis conference, Paducah district, 1843-1902
- Tennessee church marriages, 1810-1965
- Tennessee conference, Paris district, Wadesboro circuit records, 1832-1878
- William P. Grohse collection
- Bro. Samuel DeWhitt (1792-1853); the Union Christian Church; and Gamaliel, Monroe County, Kentucky
- Catholic women of Tennessee, 1937-1956 : a twentieth anniversary history of the Nashville Diocesan Council of the National Council of Catholic Women
- Early records of Bartlett Baptist Church, Bartlett, Tennessee
- A fifty year history (minutes) of the Second Creek Association of Primitive Baptists
- The file box
- History of middle Tennessee baptists : with special reference to Salem, New Salem, Enon and Wiseman Associations ; containing sketches of associations, churches, deceased ministers and deacons, with ministerial directory; also chapters on separate baptists, christian baptists, feet washing
- History of the church at Dunlap – Hickman county [1820]
- History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
- Holston Methodism : from its origin to the present time
- Life and times of Rev. S. Patton, D.D. : and, Annals of the Holston Conference
- [Missionary journal of Isaac B. Evans], 1899-1900, 1901
- One hundred and sixty-two years of middle Tennessee Baptists 1796- 1958
- Outline of development of Methodism in Tennessee
- Sketches of western Methodism : biographical, historical & miscellaneous, illustrative of pioneer life
- Some pioneer preachers and teachers of Tennessee
- Tennessee deaths reported in the Memphis, Arkansas and Quachita christian advocate
- The Holston annual : official record of the Holston Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South … session
Court Records
- Jackson County – Tennessee, Jackson County Records, 1801-1974, index & images (marriages 1888-1974, chancery & circuit courts 1801-1962)
- White County – Tennessee, White County Records, 1809-1975, index & images (marriages 1850-1975, chancery court 1825-1937, circuit court 1809-1900 – wills, estates, divorces)
- Cocke County – Tennessee, Cocke County Records, 1860-1930, images (marriages 1870-1929, wills 1860-1929, court 1860-1930)
- Tennessee Probate Court Books, 1795-1927
- Tennessee Probate Court Files, 1795-1955
- Tennessee, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872
- Tennessee, Putnam County Records, 1842-1955
- Final record books of the U.S. Circuit Court for West Tennessee, 1808-1839, and of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1839-1865
- Final record books, 1803-1850; land claim records, 1807-1820
- Franklin County, Tennessee will book : 1808-1847
- Minute books for the U.S. District Court for West Tennessee, 1797-1839 and of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1839-1865
- Minute books of the U.S. Circuit Court for West Tennessee, 1808 – 1839, and of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1839 – 1864
- Petitions of Citizens of Sullivan, Hawkins, Green, & Washington Counties, Tennessee – 1835
- Pleas of the state docket (Tennessee) : 1830-1833
- Public record : [court records – land and property,Tennessee]
- Records of the field offices for the state of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG 105, M1911
- Records of the U.S. Civil Commission for the District of Memphis, 1863- 1864
- Roane County, Tennessee : marriage bonds – 1801-1826
- Selected records of the Tennessee Field Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, T142
- Stewart county court minutes : [abstracted from microfilm, 1833]
- Tennessee, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872
- Wills and index, 1803-1917
- Index to Tennessee County court records prior to 1860
- Index to Tennessee County court records prior to 1860
- Index to Tennessee County court records prior to 1860
- Index to Tennessee County court records prior to 1860
- Index to Tennessee County court records prior to 1860 : (con’t from 10-1958)
- Survey to Tennessee County Court records, prior to 1860, in the Second, Third and Fourth Districts
Description & Travel
- Journal of an exploration in the spring of the year 1750
- Owsley charts : master charts compiled from the unpublished census, 1850-1860
- Travels of Henry Bryson, Dec. 1826 – May 1827
Employees, Officials, & Occupations
- United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
- United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index
- Index to Occupant entry book for Weakley county, Tennessee 1827-1833
- Memories of District C, Civilian Conservation Corps, 1934
- Sketches of the bench and bar of Tennessee
- Some pioneer preachers and teachers of Tennessee
Ethnic Records
African American Records
- US – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American)
- US – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American)
- US – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, index & images (marriage, labor, land, court, medical)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images (medical, African American, cemetery, birth, death, family names)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, labor, bounty, medical, land, personal information)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, employment, medical)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, legal)
- US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal)
Japanese American Records
- United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images
- United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index
Native American Records
- United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
- United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
- United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images
- Application for Chickamauga tribal enrollment
- Cherokee collection
- Cherokee Nation east, roll of 1835
- From the mail box
- Index to the 1835 census of the Cherokee Indians east of the Mississippi River
- Records of the Cherokee Indian Agency in Tennessee, 1801-1835
- Robert Armstrong’s survey book of Cherokee lands : lands granted from the treaty of 27 February 1819
- William P. Grohse collection
- Tennessee historical records from Indian & Revolutionary times up to 1883 : consisting of history of Indians, Revolutionary soldiers, War of 1812 soldiers, Indian wars soldiers, Mexican War soldiers
Minorities
- United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
- The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865
- Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Tennessee, 1865-1869 : NARA, RG105, M999
- Selected records of the Tennessee Field Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, T142
- The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865
Genealogy
- Ancestors are where you find them
- Ancestors are where you find them
- Ancestors are where you find them
- Ancestors are where you find them
- Ancestors are where you find them
- Ancestors are where you find them : (continued from last quarter)
- Ancestors are where you find them : continued from last quarter
- Bible records and marriage bonds
- Church, cemetery, bible, and family records from Tennessee
- Descendants of East Tennessee pioneers
- Families of Norris reservoir area
- Genealogical collection
- Genealogical family histories located in the North Carolina Library (Raleigh, North Carolina)
- Genealogical gleanings from the South
- Genealogical Record Committee report, 1955
- Genealogical records from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia
- Lives lost, found, honored!
- Memoirs
- North Carolinians in Tennessee : part lll.
- Notable men of Tennessee : personal and genealogical with portraits
- The Pruitt family : The story of Wiley Brown Pruitt 1827-1901 and some of his descendants
- Queries [with information]
- Seibel genealogical collection
- Tennessee cousins : a history of Tennessee people
- Tennessee, the volunteer state, 1760-1923
- William P. Grohse collection
- WPA listing of materials indexed : includes the various materials listed on the indexes
- Directory of ancestors of members of the Memphis Genealogical Society 1961
- Lives lost, found, honored!
- Lives lost, found, honored!
- Index to questionnaires of Civil War veterans
- The Cocke County Banner
- Ansearchin news
- Ansearchin’ news : The Tennessee genealogical magazine
- Early records of Upper East Tennessee [newsletter]
- East Tennessee roots
- Family findings (Tennessee)
- The Mountain empire genealogical quarterly : Eastern Kentucky, Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, Southern West Virginia
- The Ridge runners : a magazine of migration
- The River counties quarterly
- Southern roots & shoots (Delta Genealogical Society : Georgia)
- Tennessee researcher
- Memories of District C, Civilian Conservation Corps, 1934
- State and provincial archives, treasure houses for historians and genealogists : Tennessee
Government & Legal
- Index of legislative petitions (original petitions) filed in archives by the secretary of state of the state of Tennessee
- List of members of the House of Representatives, of the Tennessee Legislature : [for 1841 and 1845]
- Petition for a turnpike road : from Dresden to Miles Point on the Mississippi
- Petition of Robert Wells, Montgomery County
- Petitions to the general assembly of Tennessee : [legislative petitions, 1805-1812]
- A summary of general highway legislation in Tennessee during the period 1881-1909
- Check list of acts and codes of the state of Tennessee, 1792-1939
Government & Politics
- Andrew Jackson and early Tennessee history
- The Blount journal : 1790-1796 ; the proceedings of government over the territory of the United States of America, south of the river Ohio, William Blount in his executive dept. as governor
- The civil and political history of the state of Tennessee from its earliest settlement up to the year 1796 : including the boundaries of the state
- Government relationships established with the Cherokee Nation, 1846- 1967
- Speeches, congressional and political, and other writings, of ex-Governor Aaron V. Brown, of Tennessee
- Tennessee blue book and official directory – 1947-1948
History
- Address of J.M. Dickinson, The centennial of the admission of the State of Tennessee into the Union : delivered at Nashville, Tenn., June 1, 1896
- Andrew Jackson and early Tennessee history
- The annals of Tennessee to the end of the eighteenth century : comprising its settlement, as the Watauga Association, from 1769 to 1777 ; a part of North-Carolina, from 1777 to 1784 ; the state of Franklin, from 1784-1788 ; a part of North-Carolina, from 1788-1790 ; the territory of the U. States, south of the Ohio, from 1790 to 1796 ; the state of Tennessee, from 1796 to 1800
- Biographical sketches from Goodspeed’s histories of Tennessee
- The Blount journal : 1790-1796 ; the proceedings of government over the territory of the United States of America, south of the river Ohio, William Blount in his executive dept. as governor
- A book of the South : featuring Alabama, Florida, Georgia, the Tennessee Valley
- A brief history of the Mississippi Territory : to which is prefixed a summary view of the country between the settlements on Cumberland River & the territory
- The civil and political history of the state of Tennessee from its earliest settlement up to the year 1796 : including the boundaries of the state
- The conquest of the old southwest : the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Kentucky, 1740-1790
- Counties of Tennessee
- Dropped stitches in Tennessee history
- Early history of middle Tennessee
- Early times in middle Tennessee
- Early travels in the Tennessee country, 1540-1800
- Excerpts from historical address by Col. John A. Gardner
- Four steps west : a documentary concerning the first dividing line in America, and its three extensions, between Virginia and North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee
- General James Robertson, father of Tennessee
- The Goodspeed histories of Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren and White counties : with biographical sketches and aboriginal map of Tennessee
- The Goodspeed histories of Fayette & Hardeman counties of Tennessee
- The Goodspeed histories of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin & Moore counties of Tennessee
- The Goodspeed histories of Madison County, Tennessee
- The Goodspeed histories of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham, Houston counties of Tennessee
- Goodspeed history of Tennessee
- Goodspeed’s general history of Tennessee
- Goodspeed’s history of Hamilton, Knox and Shelby counties of Tennessee
- Goodspeed’s history of Tennessee containing historical and biographical sketches of thirty east Tennessee counties : Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, James, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, Washington
- The great earthquake of 1811 and 1812
- Historic Tennessee : a brief historical and biographical sketch of Tennessee and early Tennesseans prepared especially for busy readers ; profusely illustrated with many original maps and engravings
- History of Memphis : the history of the city of Memphis, being a compilation of the most important documents and historical events connected with the purchase of its territory, laying off of the city and early settlement…
- History of middle Tennessee, or, Life and times of Gen. James Robertson
- History of Tennessee : from the earliest time to the present; together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherfor, Wilson, Bedford and Marshall counties
- History of Tennessee : from the earliest time to the present; together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford and Marshall counties; besides a valuable fund of notes, reminiscences, observations, etc., etc
- History of Tennessee : its people and its institutions from the earliest times to the year 1903
- A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
- The history of Tennessee from its earliest settlement to the present time
- History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present : together with an historical and a biographical sketch of from twenty-five to thirty counties of east Tennessee
- History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present : together with an historical and biographical sketch of Gibson, Obion, Weakley, Dyer and Lake counties, besides a valuable fund of notes, original observations, reminiscences, etc., etc
- History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions
- History of the lost state of Franklin
- History of the South Carolina cession and the northern boundary of Tennessee
- Interview with pioneer published in 1889 : [Jesse Russell]
- John Sevier as a commonwealth-builder : a sequel to the rearguard of the Revolution
- John Trotwood Moore papers
- The loss of the state of Franklin to the Union
- Memories of District C, Civilian Conservation Corps, 1934
- The Natchez Trace : Indian trail to parkway
- Notable men of Tennessee, from 1833 to 1875 : their times and their contemporaries
- Old times in Tennessee : with historical, personal, and political scraps and sketches
- Old times in west Tennessee : reminiscences, semi-historic, of pioneer life and the early emigrant settlers in the Big Hatchie country
- Seventy selected views : Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga National Military Park
- Steamboating on the upper Tennessee : a story of 300 years of river life
- Tales of the hills and hollows
- Tennessee cousins : a history of Tennessee people
- Tennessee historical markers : erected by the Tennessee Historical Commission
- Tennessee old and new : sesquicentennial edition 1796-1946
- Tennessee, a history, 1673-1932
- Tennessee, the volunteer state, 1760-1923
- Who’s who in Tennessee : a reference edition recording the biographies of contemporary leaders in Tennessee with special emphasis on their achievements in making the volunteer state one of America’s greatest
- Fain’s critical and analytical index and genealogical guide to Ramsey’s annals of Tennessee : embracing all proper names as well as important topical subjects
- The American historical magazine and Tennessee Historical Society quarterly
- Echoes from the East Tennessee Historical Society
- The River counties quarterly
- Tennessee historical magazine
- West Tennessee Historical Society papers
- The American historical magazine and Tennessee Historical Society quarterly
- Diary (1872-1879) of James J. Womack (1834-1922) of McMinnville (Warren County), Tennessee
- Lives lost, found, honored!
- Lives lost, found, honored!
- Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Tennessee, 1865-1869 : NARA, RG105, M999
- Records of the Superintendant of Education for the state of Tennessee, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M1000
- Selected records of the Tennessee Field Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, T142
- Calendar of the Tennessee and King’s Mountain papers of the Draper collections of manuscripts
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Confederation, 1783-1789
Revolution, 1775-1783
- General James Robertson, father of Tennessee
- The rear-guard of the Revolution
- Roll of Honour, Revolutionary War ancestors
Libraries, Museums, & Archives
- Buell-Brien papers
- Early members of the Tennessee general assembly from Smith County, Tennessee
- Guide to collections of manuscripts in Tennessee
- Henry Shelton Sanford papers
- Index to will books, 1805-1833, Smith county, Tennessee : [book 1816-1820]
- Inventory of the county archives of Tennessee : No. 33, Hamilton County (Chattanooga)
- Emerick Nagy collection : the Nashville public schools
- The Jacob McGavock Dickinson papers, revised
- John Trotwood Moore papers
- Joseph Buckner Killebrew papers
- McIver collection
- State and provincial archives, treasure houses for historians and genealogists : Tennessee
- Tennessee county records manual
- Tennessee genealogical records, vols. 3, 5, 6
- Walter Wagner Faw papers
- Writings of Tennessee counties available on interlibrary loan from the Tennessee State Library and Archives, State Library Division
- Instructions for using the county records as source material : Manual of instruction for preparation of forms SP21 revised
Archives and libraries – Inventories, registers, catalogs
- Checklist of microfilms in the Tennessee State Archives
- Checklist of microfilms in the Tennessee State Archives
- Cherokee collection
- Civil War collection, Confederate and Federal
- Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in Tennessee
- Guide to the microfilm holdings of the manuscripts section, Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Guide to the microfilmed manuscript holdings of the Tennessee State Library and Archives
- [Index to Tennessee county inventories]
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 02, Federal Courts, no. 41, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 03, Department of the Treasury, no. 41, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 04, Department of War, no. 41, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 05, Department of Justice, no. 41, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 07, Department of the Navy, no. 41, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 08, Department of the Interior, no. 41, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 09, Department of Agriculture, no. 41, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 10, Department of Commerce, no. 41, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 11, Department of Labor, no. 41, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 12, Veterans’ Administration, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 14, Emergency Relief Administrations, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 15, Works Progress Administration, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 16, Farm Credit Administration, Tennessee
- Inventory of federal archives in the states, series 17, Miscellaneous agencies, Tennessee
- Inventory of the church archives of Tennessee : Tennessee Baptist Convention, Nashville Baptist Association
- Inventory of the church archives of Tennessee : Tennessee Baptist Convention, Ocoee Baptist Association
- Negative microfilm checklist
- Tennessee diaries, memoirs and church records in the Manuscript Division, Tennessee State Library and Archives : listed by county
- Williamson County, Franklin, Tennessee
Magazines & Periodicals
- Newsline: a quarterly newsletter of the East Tennessee Historical Society
- Southern Methodist Home Altar : a guide to Christian perfection, v. 4, nos. 36, 40; May, September 1874
Medical
- Records of the field offices for the state of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG 105, M1911
- Tennessee, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872
Newspapers
- Cocke Co., Tenn.
- Death records found in Memphis, Tennessee – 1866
- Early Bedford County, Tennessee marriages reported in newspapers
- A list of letters : [transcribed from the Southern Statesman, January 28, 1832]
- Montgomery county marriages : [from newspapers]
- Newspaper abstracts : [from Southern Statesman, an early Jackson, Madison Co. Tn. newspaper]
- Newspaper abstracts : [Southern Statesman, 1831-1833]
- Tennesseans reported in “the Hickman times”
- Tennessee newspapers : a cumulative list of microfilmed Tennessee newspapers in the Tennessee State Library
- Wilson County, Tennessee Data : [From “The Lebonon Democrat” November 7,1889 “The Boys” Once Lebanon boys]]
- Tennessee newspapers : a cumulative list of microfilmed Tennessee newspapers in the Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Tennessee newspapers, a cumulative list of microfilmed Tennessee newspapers in the Tennessee State Library; Progress report
- Montgomery county miscellany
- One hundred years of the Commercial Appeal : the story of the greatest romance in American journalism, 1840 to 1940
Public Records
- United States Public Records, 1970-2009, index
- Dickson County Will Abstracts
- Franklin County, Tennessee will book : 1808-1847
- [Index to Occupant entry book} : [Weakley county, Tennessee, 1827-1833]
- Lawrence county, Tennessee marriages, book “A” 1838-1860
- Mortality Schedule, 1850, Weakley county, Tennessee Schedule, 1850, Weakley County, Tennessee
- Records of the Superintendant of Education for the state of Tennessee, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M1000
- Roane County, Tennessee, marriage bonds- 1801-1826
- Soldiers’ applications for admission, 1889- ca. 1965
- [General Index To Claiborne Co., Tennessee] : [book of records, Vol. I, 1801-1825]
- General index to Clairborne Co., Tennessee Book Of Records, Vol. I, 1801-1825
Slavery & Bondage
- FreeJoe: a story of love, faith and perserverance
- Owsley charts : master charts compiled from the unpublished census, 1850-1860
- Records of ante-bellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War : Series J, Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Tennessee, 1865-1869 : NARA, RG105, M999
- Records of the Superintendant of Education for the state of Tennessee, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M1000
- Selected records of the Tennessee Field Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, T142
- Tennessee, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872
Social Life & Customs
Societies
- The history of freemasonry in Tennessee, 1789-1943
- The Magazine Club : Golden anniversary
- Record book of the proceedings of Oakland Juvenile Debating Society, Oakland Academy (Oakland, Tennessee) : Organized Sept. 15, 1839 – 1850
- Tennessee templars : a register of names, with biographical sketches of the Knights Templar of Tennessee, and brief histories of the grand and subordinate commanderies
- The Tennessee Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: additions to membership and directory, 1968-1972
- History of American Legion, Department of Tennessee, 1919-1953
- January 22, 1965, summaries of program talks : [from a Historical Association]
- Woman’s work in Tennessee : Contains a history of the Tennessee Federation of women’s clubs, mountain settlement work, civil service reform, prison reform, civic work, home economics, rural co-operation, health improvement, etc., also portriats and biographical sketches of women prominent in educational, financial, commercial, club, social and philanthropic activities in the state of Tennessee
- Dispatch : the newsletter of the American Association for State and Local History
- The East Tennessee Historical Society’s publications
- West Tennessee Historical Society papers
Tennessee Military Records
- United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images
- United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
- United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
- United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images
- Tennessee – Ancestors are where you find them: continued from last quarter (vital, military, land)
- Indexes to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Cherokee disturbances and removal in organizations from the state of Tennessee, and the field and staff of the army of the Cherokee Nation
- 1837 Tennessee volunteers muster rolls for various Counties
- Ancestors are where you find them : continued from last quarter
- Genealogical records of Sherman Lee Pompey
- The Lillard collection
- Membership roster and soldiers : Tennessee State Society of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
- Miscellaneous loose papers
- A muster roll of Captain John Rains’ company of mounted infantry called into service for the protection of the frontier of Mero district being the muster at the expiration of service
- Muster rolls of company C 1st Tennessee mounted infantry union : October 1864
- Record of commissions of officers in the Tennessee Militia, 1796-1811
- Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Tennessee, 1865-1869 : NARA, RG105, M999
- Records of the Superintendant of Education for the state of Tennessee, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M1000
- Roll of company B 4th regiment Tennessee cavalry : war of the rebellion
- Roll of company B 4th regiment Tennessee cavalry : war of the rebellion
- Rosters of camp no. 20
- Selected records of the Tennessee Field Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, T142
- Soldiers’ applications for admission, 1889- ca. 1965
- Tennessee pension roll in U.S. Senate, 1st Session, 23rd Congress : from documents published in 1835 in relation to pension establishment of U.S. names of pensioners residing in Tennessee
- Tennessee, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872
- Volunteer soldiers in the Cherokee War, 1836-39
- West Tennessee soldier’s – widows pension applications : [Abbott through Beck]
- West Tennessee soldier’s pension applications : [continued from a previous Family Findings]
- West Tennessee soldier’s pension- widow’s application : [Butler through Crocker]
- West Tennessee soldiers – widows pension applications : [name, address and spouses name]
- Williamson County, Tennessee, Revolutionary & Military Pensioners, 1840
Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
- United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
- United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images
- United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865
- United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
- United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875
- United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866
- United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866
- Tennessee, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-18651,117,605Apr 20, 2012
- Tennessee, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865578,993Apr 20, 2012
- Tennessee, Confederate Pension Applications, Soldiers and Widows, 1891-1965
- From the draper manuscripts
- Gilbert Combs : [Revolutionary pension file]
- North Carolina and Tennessee; revolutionary warrants, 1783-1837
- Roll of honor, Revolutionary War era ancestors : [a list of ancsestor – descendant]
- East Tennessee pensioners, Revolutionary War
- Tennessee military records : pension abstracts of Revolution, War of 1812, and other wars
- Tennessee Revolutionary War pensioners : and other patriotic records
- Tennessee historical records from Indian & Revolutionary times up to 1883 : consisting of history of Indians, Revolutionary soldiers, War of 1812 soldiers, Indian wars soldiers, Mexican War soldiers
- Tennessee Revolutionary War pensioners : and other patriotic records
War of 1812
- 1814-1815 muster roll–general and staff of a Tennessee brigade
- Captain Isaac Williams and his grand children : the story of a fighting Quaker and three generations of Indiana pioneers
- Muster roll, War 1812
- Muster rolls of the War of 1812
- Tennessee historical records from Indian & Revolutionary times up to 1883 : consisting of history of Indians, Revolutionary soldiers, War of 1812 soldiers, Indian wars soldiers, Mexican War soldiers
- Tennessee soldiers in the war of 1812 : regiments of Col. Allcorn and Col. Allison
- Tennessee military records : pension abstracts of Revolution, War of 1812, and other wars
Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
- United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
- United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images
- Compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Mexican War in organizations from the state of Tennessee
- Tennessee historical records from Indian & Revolutionary times up to 1883 : consisting of history of Indians, Revolutionary soldiers, War of 1812 soldiers, Indian wars soldiers, Mexican War soldiers
US Civil War
- United States Civil War Confederate Applications for Pardons, 1865-1867, index links to images
- United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index links to images
- United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
- United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images
- United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
- Tennessee, Confederate Pension Applications, Soldiers and Widows, 1891-1965, index & images
- Tennessee, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, index links to images
- Tennessee, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865, index links to images
- Campaigns and battles of the Sixteenth regiment, Tennessee volunteers
- The campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. N.B. Forrest and of Forrest’s Cavalry : with portraits, maps, and illustrations
- Civil War collection, Confederate and Federal
- Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Tennessee
- Compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Tennessee
- Confederate service record, out of state, Tennessee, 1861-1865
- Rebel account claims (Madison County, Tennessee), 1868
- Roll of Confederate prisoners of war, paroled at Meridian, Mississippi, May 1865
- Roll of honor : names of soldiers who died in defence of the American Union, interred in
- Roster of upper east Tennessee Confederate veterans
- Tennessee, Civil War service records of Confederate soldiers, 1861-1865
- Tennessee, Civil War service records of Union soldiers, 1861-1865
- Index to compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Tennessee
- Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Tennessee
- Index to questionaires of Civil War soldiers : continued from last issue
- Index to questionnaires of Civil War soldiers : continued from last is
- Index to questionnaires of Civil War soldiers.
- Index to questionnaires of Civil War veterans
- Tennessee, Civil War service records of Confederate soldiers, 1861-1865
- Tennessee, Civil War service records of Union soldiers, 1861-1865
- Confederate pension applications: soldiers and widows, 1891- ca. 1965
- Tennessee, Confederate pension applications, soldiers and widows, 1891-1959
- Index to Tennessee Confederate pension applications
- Index to Tennessee Confederate pension applications
- The 21st Missouri Regiment Infantry Veteran Volunteers
- The annals of the Army of Tennessee and early western history : including a chronological summary of battles and engagements in the western armies of the confederacy
- The artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry : “the wizard of the saddle”
- The battle of Shiloh
- Beauregard’s retreat from Pittsburg landing : [Battle of Shiloh, Beauregard’s reports casulties]
- Brief Sketch of Civil War
- Campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee : including the Battle of Chickamauga, 1862-1864
- Chapters from the unwritten history of the war between the states, or, The incidents in the life of a Confederate soldier in camp, on the march, in the great battles, and in prison
- [Co. H. of the 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment] : [Taken from Paris, Tn. newspaper 1891]
- Directory of Civil War monuments and memorials in Tennessee
- From Manassas to Appomattox : memoirs of the Civil War in America
- A history of Lumsden’s Battery, C.S.A.
- History of the 42nd Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, Confederate States Army, Infantry
- History of the First Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A.
- Kelion Franklin Peddicord of Quirk’s Scouts : Morgan’s Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A., together with a general biographical outline of the Peddicord family
- The loyal mountaineers of Tennessee
- The loyal mountaineers of Tennessee
- The military annals of Tennessee : confederate, first series; embracing a review of military operations, with regimental histories and memorial rolls, compiled from original and official sources
- Recollections of the 26th Missouri Infantry, in the war for the Union
- Recollections of war times by an old veteran while under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet : how I got in and how I got out
- A sketch of Harvey’s scouts : formerly of Jackson’s cavalry division, Army of Tennessee
- Sketches of the rise, progress, and decline of secession : with a narrative of personal adventures among the rebels
- Some encounters with General Forrest
- Tennessee’s Confederate pensioners
- A Texan in search of a fight : being the diary and letters of a private soldier in Hood’s Texas Brigade
- Waiting for the moment
- The artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry : “the wizard of the saddle”
- Autobiography of Rev. A. B. Wright of the Holston Conference, M. E. Church
- Civil War Questionnaires
- The artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry : “the wizard of the saddle”
- History of the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry in the great War of the Rebellion : with the armies of the Ohio and Cumberland, under Generals Morgan, Rosecrans, Thomas, Stanley and Wilson 1862-1865
- History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U.S.A. : including a narrative of the bridge burning, the Carter County rebellion and the loyalty, heroism and suffering of the Union men and women of Carter and Johnson counties, Tennessee, during the Civil War
- History of the Twentieth Tennessee regiment volunteer infantry, C. S. A
- The military annals of Tennessee : confederate, first series; embracing a review of military operations, with regimental histories and memorial rolls, compiled from original and official sources
- Personal record of the Thirteenth regiment, Tennessee Infantry
Indian Wars
- United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
World War I
- United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
- United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
- History of American Legion, Department of Tennessee, 1919-1953
- Tennessee, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919
- Tennessee, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918
World War II
- United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
- United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
Korean War
Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions
- United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images
- United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
- Tennessee, Confederate Pension Applications, Soldiers and Widows, 1891-1965, index & images
- Redman McMahan’s pension application
- The revolution Tennessee, from pension applications No. 7, Edward Cox S3 170
- Robert Brown’s pension application
- Tennessee military records : pension abstracts of Revolution, War of 1812, and other wars
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