Sullivan County, Tennessee Compiled Genealogies

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DNA
DNA has been collected from men claiming descent from the following Sullivan County residents. FamilySearch has not independently verified the lineages of those tested.


 * [Combs] Descendant of Jonathan Combs, b. c1775, d. aft. 1850 Sullivan County, Tennessee. Y-DNA Test. Discussion of family and genetic matches in NJ, TN, KY available online, courtesy: Combs-Coombs &amp;c. International DNA Study.
 * [Smith] Descendant of Joseph Smith, b. 1797/98 Virginia, d. 1860s Sullivan County, Tennessee. Y-DNA Test. Discussion of family and DNA test available online, courtesy: Sullivan County, TN Genealogy Forum.

General
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..

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 Sullivan (County), Tennessee at World Connect, results in more than 60,000 entries.

A book that discusses many local families is:


 * Holston Territory Genealogical Society and Sullivan County Historical and Genealogical Society. Families and History of Sullivan County, Tennessee. 2 vols. [Tenn.]: Holston Territory Genealogical Society, 1992-2006; Nashville, Tenn.: Turner Pub. Co., 2006..