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Outline for Tennessee: (Part of the Family
History Source Guide.) This includes historical
background, as well as information on major
genealogical record sources available for
research in the state.
Family
History Centers in Tennessee: Family History
Centers are associated with the Family History
Library in Salt Lake City, and have access to
its large collection (over 2 million rolls of
microfilm) via a special loan arrangement.
Family History Centers also have the
International Genealogical Index, Ancestral
File, and the catalog of the Family History
Library's holdings.
Welcome
to Tennessee: The official website of the
state government.
Tennessee
Office of Vital Records: Original
certificates of births, deaths, marriages and
divorces that occur in Tennessee.
Tennessee
Genealogy at its Best: The Tennessee section
of the USGenWeb Project.
Tennessee
GenWeb Archives: Transcriptions of original
source material from the state of Tennessee,
arranged by county.
Tennessee
Maps: In the Perry-Castañeda Library Map
Collection of the University of Texas at Austin.
1895
Atlas of Tennessee: Alphabetic listing of
towns in the state, with maps. THEY ALSO HAVE ATLAS FOR OTHER
STATES NOT JUST TN !!!
Tennessee
Links on Cyndi's List: Arranged by subject.
Tennessee
Resources at Rootsweb: Arranged by county.
Tennessee
Genealogical Society: Founded in 1952.
Tennessee
Historical Society: Headquartered in
Nashville.
Tennessee
Confederate Soldiers' Home Application Index:
From the Tennessee State Library and Archives.
The
Civil War Archive Union Regimental Index,
Tennessee: Regimental histories from A
Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by
Frederick H. Dyer.
Tennessee
and the Civil War: With both historical and
genealogical resources.
The
Tennessee Civil War Home Page: Links to both
Confederate and federal resources.
Tennessee
Mailing Lists: Email discussion forums for
genealogists.
Poor
Farm Records of Tennessee Counties
Poorhouses
were residential institutions to which people
were required to go if they could not support
themselves. They were started as a method of
providing a less expensive (to the taxpayers)
alternative to what we would now days call
"welfare" - what was called
"outdoor relief" in those days.
Tennessee
State Archives has Confederate Records as
well as other state records.
Tennessee
Vital Statistics Records of Births and
Deaths of Those born or died in the State of
Tennessee
East
Tennessee Historical Society
This
society, incorporated in 1925, interprets and
preserves the heritage and culture of those who
settled and built up the eastern Tennessee area.
If you know of
an internet resource to public records that we
have not yet posted, please send us an email
message addressed to genealogy@sevierlibrary.org
Please include the name of the site and the
website address. (Example: National Archives http://www.nara.gov/)
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