Washington County, Tennessee Compiled Genealogies

General
Gordon Aronhime (1911-1983) collected information on hundreds of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee pioneers. His note cards, which reference more than 4,000 early settlers of the Holston-Clinch River area and East Tennessee (1770s-1790s), are held at the Library of Virginia. The cards have been digitized and made available online.

As of August 2010, a query for persons born in Washington (County), Tennessee at World Connect, results in more than 95,000 entries.

For early settlers (pre-1796), start with:


 * East Tennessee Historical Society. First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-day Descendants. Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 2000..

Books that discuss multiple local families include:


 * 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. Nashville, Tenn.: Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1887. 1972 reprint: ; digital index with some abstracts at TNGenWeb; Free Lookups Available!
 * Watauga Association of Genealogists. History of Washington County, Tennessee, 1988. n.p.: Walsworth Press, 1988. . Free Lookups Available!