Tennessee, United States Genealogy

United States   Tennessee

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Welcome to Tennessee, Volunteer State

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Featured Content

 * Tennessee is informally segregated into three "Grand Divisions" that are topographically, politically, economically, and culturally different. East Tennessee even attempted to secede from the rest of the State during the Civil War. See maps and details at the TNGenWeb site.
 * Did you know that at least 20 counties in Tennessee did not begin recording marriages in registers until 1838? For more information, see Tennessee Vital Records.
 * In 1820, Tennessee's top three manufactured goods were whiskey, blacksmith's products, and flour. Learn more at Tennessee Occupations.
 * Tennessee Blacksheep Ancestors has indexes of nefarious Tennessee ancestors.

Counties
Extinct or Renamed Counties: State of Franklin | Caswell | Christiana | Cumberland (old) | James | Lewis (old) | Putnam (old) | Spencer | Tennessee | Wayne (old)

Major Repositories

 * Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville
 * East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville
 * Germantown Regional History and Genealogy Center near Memphis
 * National Archives Southeast Region (Atlanta)

Research Tools

 * Find which county a town is in, what town a cemetery is in, even where a postoffice or building is by using the United States Geographical Survey's Geographical Names Information System.
 * David Rumsey Map Collection is a large online collection of rare, old, antique historical atlases, globes, maps, charts plus other cartographic treasures.
 * The Tennessee GenWeb Project has a wealth of information and is a part of the larger USGenWeb Project. The USGenWeb Project provides internet information on every county in every state in the United States.

Things you can do
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