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Tennessee Genealogy Books

Flowering Of The Cumberland by Harriet Simpson Arnow. 441 pp., illus., index, maps, paper. (1963) 1996. A well-known social history of the Cumberland River basin area or what is now central Tennessee and Southern Kentucky that is focused on family and community. UTN008       $17.95

Tennesee Cousins: A History Of Tennesee People by Worth S. Ray. 811 pp., index, cloth. 2002. An immense amount of genealogical data is on tap on this well-known book, which is not confined to Tennesee but reaches out to the Carolinas, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, and other southern states as well. Over 6000 names are given as well in the index, with some names having as many as fifty references. All Tennesee counties are covered, each with pertinent genealogical references such as abstracts of wills and deeds, tombstone inscriptions, marriage records, and sketches of early settlers. The most important records include the first court records of Washington district, the marriage records of Greene, Washington, Jefferson, and Knox counties, and revoloutionary soldiers of Roane county. UTN004       $40.00

Tennessee Genealogical Records: Records Of Early Settlers From State And County Archives by Edythe Rucker Whitley. 393 pp., index, cloth. (1980)1997. This work offers important source data and is a major advance in Tennessee genealogical reference material. From records in the State Archives in Nashville, and from over twenty county courthouses, the record abstracts relate to over 18,000 early Tennessee settlers. There are Revolutionary warrants, grants and certificates of survey, will abstracts, tombstone inscriptions, deed abstracts, marriages -- including the valuable Sumner County marriages, 1791-1813 -- and court orders and petitions. Many of these came from the counties of Bedford, Bledsoe, Carter, Davidson, Dyer, Franklin, Hawkins, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson, Maury, Montgomery, Overton, Smith, Stewart, Sullivan, Sumner, Washington, White, Williamson, and Wilson. There also are genealogical notes on some two dozen families. UTN009       $25.00

Tennessee Genealogical Research by Dr. George K. Schweitzer. 138 pp., paper. 1993. 1,073 sources for tracing your Tennessee ancestor along with detailed instructions. UTN005       $12.00