Blount County, Tennessee Compiled Genealogies

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General
As of August 2010, a query for persons born in Blount (County), Tennessee at World Connect, results in more than 85,000 entries.

The Will E. Parham papers are kept at the Blount County Library Reference Section. Parham was a professional genealogist in the late 1800s and early 1900s. There is a card file by last name. Loose leaf by family name. There are also family files from other people who have added information.

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.

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..

Publications that discuss multiple local families include:


 * Edwards, Olga Jones and Izora Waters Frizzell. The "Connection" in East Tennessee. 1969; reprint, Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press, 1978..
 * Shields, A. Randolph. The Families of Cades Cove, 1821-1936. Maryville, Tenn.: A.R. Shields, 1988..
 * Thomas, Jane Kizer. Our Ancestry Society: Family Records of Members of Blount County, Tennessee, Genealogical and Historical Society. Maryville, Tenn.: Blount County, Tennessee, Genealogical and Historical Society, 1988..
 * Vincent, Don. 800 Missouri Families. 5 vols. Seattle, Wash.: n.p., 1988-1990. . [Includes Missouri settlers with Blount County, Tennessee origins.]