Germantown Regional History and Genealogy Center

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:jbaker@germantown-tn.gov jbaker@germantown-tn.gov]

Address:


 * 7779 Poplar Pike
 * Germantown, TN 38138

Telephone:


 * Regional Historical and Genealogical Center 901-757-8480
 * Tennessee Genealogical Society 901-754-4300

Hours: Monday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. | Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Directions, maps, and public transportation: click here.

Internet sites and databases:


 * Germantown Regional History and Genealogy Center mission, description, collections, programs and events.
 * Tennessee Genealogical Society history, mission, news, research help, events, meetings, classes, photographs.
 * Online library catalog by word or phrase, author, title, subject, series, or periodical title.

Collection Description
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Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a record at the , a similar record may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, African Americans, vital records, censuses, county records, tax lists, local histories, school censuses, manuscripts, military records, Native Americans, newspapers, obituary lists, maps, state agency records, petitions, Tennessee postcards, city directories, prison inmates, and TN county historians.

Similar Collections


 * East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, 67,000 books, newspapers, 3,000 genealogies, 14,000 TN first families, manuscripts, census, Knoxville city directories 1859-now, maps, photos, deeds, wills, marriages, military records, TN Confederate pensions, Ancestry.com, New England Ancestors, HeritageQuest, Sanborn maps.

Neighboring Collections


 * Memphis Public Library, microfilmed and indexed Memphis and Shelby County records, censuses, genealogies, periodicals, especially for the southern USA, passenger lists, Dawes Comm. index, DAR lineages, Ancestry.com.
 * Shelby County Clerk, marriages 2000-present.
 * Shelby County Register, deaths 1902-1954, deeds.
 * Shelby Co. Archives, marriage 1820-1999, death 1848-1951, probate 1820-1900, deeds, naturalization 1856-1906.
 * Memphis and Shelby County Health Dept., births, 1952-present.
 * Shelby County Probate Court, probates 1900-present.
 * Shelby County Clerk of the Circuit Court, divorces.
 * Shelby County Clerk of the Chanery Court, divorces.
 * The Hermitage Museum, home of President Andrew Jackson, Nashville, to learn about Tennesse lifestyles.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Tipton, Fayette, Marshall MS, DeSoto MS, Crittenden AR, Mississippi AR.
 * Vanderbuilt University Library, Nashville, biography, history, newspapers, ProQuest, America History &amp; Life.
 * Tennessee State University Library, Nashville, biography, ethnic studies, history, newspapers, JSTOR, Civil War.
 * University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries documentary histories, ArchivesUSA, newspapers, and ProQuest.
 * State Library of North Carolina, Raleigh, family history, Bibles, marriages, deaths, newspapers, deeds, photos.
 * North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, census, military, courts, bond, deed, estate, vital record, tax, wills.
 * Repositories in other surrounding states: Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri.
 * National Archives—Southeast Region, Atlanta (Morrow), federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty-land, photos, passengers arrival indexes, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, workshops.
 * Allen County Public Library (Indiana) has a premier genealogical periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, Canadians.
 * Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, MO, national censuses/indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and extensive newspaper clippings.
 * Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research, Houston TX, newspapers, American Civil War, Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Black Studies, Ancestry.com, HeritageQuestOnline, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.