EAST TENNESSEE RESEARCH AIDS

Tennessee formed in 1796 from North Carolina .

(This website will cover all Tennessee counties laying on & east of the Cumberland Plateau including:  Scott, Campbell, Claiborne, Hancock, Hawkins, Sullivan, Johnson, Carter, Washington, Greene, Hamblen. Grainger, Hamblen, Morgan, Cumberland, Anderson, Knox, Jefferson, Cocke,  Sevier, Unicoi, Jefferson, Blount, Bledsoe, Sequatchie, Hamilton, Rhea, Meigs, Roane, Loudon, Monroe, Meigs, McMinn, Polk, Bradley, Marion, Grundy & Van Buren.)

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/tn/state/countypages.htm

For links to above counties hosted by Tennessee Local History Network

More information on each individual county is available through links at

The Tennessee web site for your American Local History Network.  http://usgennet.org/usa/tn/state/

The web site for Tennessee's Genealogy web  www.tngenweb.org

For the Tennessee History and Genealogy Project  http://www.sevierlibrary.org/ahgp/sevi.htm

Connect to these resources to enhance your research

• The TNGenWeb Newspaper Archives

• Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and Holston Rivers

• infamous Walker Line

• State of Franklin

• A List of Early Indian Traders

Military Research Aid

USIGS Military Collection Links

Tennessee On-Line Resources

• Tennessee State Library and Archives.
  • Tennessee State Library and Archives Fee based services. They will respond by mail.
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• Tennessee County Historians.
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• Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection. A comprehensive genealogical library.
  • Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection Fee based services.
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• East Tennessee Historical Society. They are building a web presence.
  • East Tennessee Historical Society Affiliates.
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• Tennessee State Legislative information 1796-1830, Will be indexed and on-line.
• Tennesssee Vital Records Information

   

  • Tennessee Vital Records. Where to write for them.

   

• The Land of Our Ancestors, Surveyor's Districts, Grant and Deed Record Information.
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• Knox County Archives. Nearly continuous from 1792 to the present time.

Other Genealogy Resources

• Genealogy Resources on the Internet
• MapQuest downloadable maps. Requires some skill.
• This site gives a listing of who is working on Deeds by State and County

East Tennessee Mail lists (see subscription instructions below)

• Southeast Tennessee  SE-TN-request@rootsweb.com
• Northeast Tennessee NE-TN-request@rootsweb.
• East Tennessee         ETN-request@rootsweb.com
• Tennessee (statewide) Tennessee-request@rootsweb.com
• Native American -     Trail-of-Tears-request@rootsweb.com

        To subscribe to any of the above rootsweb mail lists simply click on the link for it.  An e-mail box will appear.  Type the word   subscribe   in the subject line or body of the email and send.  Nothing else is needed.  You will soon receive an email confirming your subscription. You can then mail to the list.  The mailing address to the list will be within the confirmation email.

    To locate and subscribe to any COUNTY list use "TN + the county name (I.E.   tnsullivan-request@rootsweb.com or tnmorgan-request@rootsweb.com )

Page last edited 09/22/2007

Maintained by Joyce Gaston Reece

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