H I S T O R Y & G E N E A L O G Y TENNESSEE GENEALOGY ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY 1640 S. LINDBERGH BLVD. ST. LOUIS, MO 63131 This guide provides an overview of resources for Tennessee genealogical research available in History & Genealogy. Additional items not listed here are available. Please consult the online catalog at www.slcl.org or ask for assistance at the History & Genealogy reference desk. Call numbers or other location information follow each entry. Books with call numbers beginning with R are for use in the library only. Ancestry is an online database available on computers at all St. Louis County Library branches. AFRICAN AMERICAN Lamon, Lester C. Blacks in Tennessee, 1791-1970. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981. Call no. 976.8 L234B United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869. 1 roll. Washington, D. C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1976. United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Field Offices for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. 89 rolls. Washington, D. C.: National Archives and Records Service, n. d. Ask for assistance at the History & Genealogy reference desk. ATLASES AND GAZETTEERS Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: Tennessee. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 2000. Call no. R 911.768 A881 DeLorme Mapping Company. Tennessee Atlas & Gazetteer. Freeport, Me.: DeLorme Mapping Co., 1997. Call no. R 912.768 D362T Morris, Eastin. Tennessee Gazetteer, 1834, and Matthew Rhea s Map of the State of Tennessee, 1832. Nashville: Gazetteer Press, 1971. Call no. R 976.8 M875E and 976.8 M875E BIBLE AND CHURCH RECORDS Acklen, Jeannette Tillotson. Tennessee Records, vol. 2, Bible Records and Marriage Bonds. Nashville: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1933. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974. Call no. 976.8 A182T Sistler, Byron and Barbara. Vital Statistics from 19th-century Tennessee Church Records. 2 vols. Nashville: Byron Sistler & Associates, 1979. Call no. Q 976.8 S623V 1
Tennessee Bible and Family Records. Johnson City, Tenn.: Watauga Association of Genealogists Upper East Tennessee, 1996. Call no. Q 976.8 T297 CEMETERY RECORDS Acklen, Jeannette Tillotson. Tennessee Records, vol. 1, Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts, Historical and Biographical. Nashville: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1933. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976. Call no. 976.8 A182T Complete Surname Index of TVA Grave Removals. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 1989. Call no. R 976.8 C737 CENSUS RECORDS The following Federal Census records for Tennessee are on Ancestry as indicated. Mortality schedules, 1850-70 Population schedules, 1810-1940 Slave schedules, 1850-60 Veterans schedules, 1890 CIVIL WAR Bartels, Carolyn M. Tennessee C. S. A. Deaths in Union Prisons. Independence, Mo.: Two Trails Publishing, 1998. Call no. R 976.8 B283T Cottrell, Steve. Civil War in Tennessee. Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Co., 2001. Call no. R 976.8 C851C Dyer, Gustavus W. and John Trotwood Moore. The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires. 5 vols. Easley, S. C.: Southern Historical Press, 1985. Call no. R 976.8 T297 (For index, see Index below.) Elder, Pat Spurlock. Tennessee Colored Confederate Pension Applications. Blountville, Tenn.: Continuity Press, 1997. Call no. Q 976.8 E37T Index to Questionnaires of Civil War Veterans. Nashville: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1962. Call no. R 976.8 I38 andq 976.8 I38 Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Tennessee. Westminster, Md.: Heritage Books, 2006. Call no. R 976.8 S573C Sistler, Samuel. Index to Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications. Nashville: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1964. Call no. R 976.8 S622I and Q 976.8 S622I Also available at Ancestry. 2
Tennessee. Civil War Centennial Commission. Tennesseans in the Civil War: A Military History of Confederate and Union Units with Available Rosters of Personnel. 2 vols. Nashville: Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964-65. Call no. Q 976.8 T297T Tennessee Civil War Regimental Histories. Database online. Ancestry. COUNTIES Foster, Austin P. Counties of Tennessee. Nashville: Department of Education, Division of History, State of Tennessee, 1923. Reprint, Greenville, S. C.: Southern Historical Press, 1990. Call no. 976.8 F754C COURT AND CRIMINAL RECORDS Miller, Alan N. Nineteenth-century Tennessee Adoptions, Legitimations, and Name Changes. Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 2009. R 976.8 M647N Sherill, Charles A. Tennesseans in Court: 2,500 Early Settlers Found in Supreme Court Reports, 1791-1820. Mt. Juliet, Tenn.: C. A. Sherill, 1999. Call no. 976.8 S553T Sherill, Charles A and Tomye M. Tennessee Convicts: Early Records of the State Penitentiary. Mt. Juliet, Tenn.: C. A. Sherill, 1997. Call no. 976.8 S553T DIVORCES Bamman, Gale W. and Debbie W. Spero. Tennessee Divorces, 1797-1858 Taken from 750 Legislative Petitions and Acts. Nashville: G. W. Bamman, 1985. Call no. R 976.8 B199T FAMILIES First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-day Descendants. Knoxville: East Tennessee Historical Society, 2000. Call no. R 976.8 F527 and Q 976.8 F527 Ray, Worth S. Tennessee Cousins: A History of Tennessee People. Originally published Austin, Texas, 1950. Reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994, 1977. Call no. R 976.8 R264T and 976.8 R264T Tennessee Settlers and Their Descendants: Genealogical Data about Some of the Men and Women Who Helped Shape the Volunteer State. 2 vols. Memphis: Tennessee Genealogical Society, 1994, 2002. Call no. R 976.8 T297 Whitley, Edythe Rucker. Tennessee Genealogical Records: Records of Early Settlers from State and County Archives. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980. Call no. R 976.8 W613T and 976.8 W613T 3
GUIDES Bamman, Gale Williams. Research in Tennessee. Arlington, Va.: National Genealogical Society, 2009. Call no. 976.8 B199R Elliott, Wendy L. Research in Tennessee. Bountiful, Utah: American Genealogical Lending Library, 1987. Call no. R 976.8 E46R Fulcher, Richard Carlton. Guide to County Records and Genealogical Resources in Tennessee. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. Call no. R 976.8 F962G and 976.8 F962G Guide to the Microfilmed Manuscript Holdings of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Nashville: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1983. Call no. R 976.8 T297G Schweitzer, George K. Tennessee Genealogical Research. Knoxville: G. K. Schweitzer, 1993. Call no. 976.8 S413T HISTORY Ramsey, J. G. M. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century Originally published Charleston, S. C., 1853. Reprint Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co., 1995. Call no. R 976.8 R183A Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769-1923. Database online. Ancestry. LAND RECORDS Burgner, Goldene Fillers. North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791. Reprinted Greenville, S. C.: Southern Historical Press, 1990. Call no. 976.8 B956N Cartwright, Betty Goff Cook and Lillian Johnson Gardiner. North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791. Memphis, Tenn.: I. C. Harper Co., 1958. Call no. 976.8 C329N Griffey, Irene M. Earliest Tennessee Land Records & Earliest Tennessee Land History. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. Call no. R 976.8 G849E Sistler, Byron. Tennessee Land Grants. 17 vols. Nashville: Byron Sistler & Associates, 1997-98. Call no. R 976.8 S623T Sistler, Barbara, Byron and Samuel. Tennessee Land Grants. 2 vols. Nashville: Byron Sistler & Associates, 1998. Call no. Q 976.8 S623T MARRIAGE RECORDS Lucas, Silas Emmett. 35,000 Tennessee Marriage Records and Bonds, 1783-1870. 3 vols. Easley, S. C.: Southern Historical Press, 1981. Call no. R 976.8 L933T and 976.8 L933T Lucas, Silas Emmett. Marriages from Early Tennessee Newspapers, 1794-1851. Easley, S. C.: Southern Historical Press, 1978. Call no. R 976.8 T297M and 976.8 T297M 4
Tennessee Marriages, 1801 to 1825. Bountiful, Utah: Precision Indexing, 1992. Call no. R 976.8 T297 Tennessee Marriages, 1851-1900. Database online. Ancestry. Tennessee Marriages, Early to 1800. Bountiful, Utah: Precision Indexing Publishers, 1990. Call no. R 976.8 T297 and Q 976.8 T297 MARYLANDERS IN TENNESSEE Peden, Henry C. Marylanders to Tennessee, 1775-1835. Lewes, DE: Colonial Roots, 2011, 2005. Call no. R 975.2 P371M MILITARY RECORDS See also the Civil War section in this guide. Allen Penelope Johnson. Tennessee Soldiers in the Revolution. Originally published Bristol, Tenn.: Tennessee Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1935. Reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1975, 1982, 1996. Call no. 976.8 A428T. Also available on Ancestry. Armstrong, Zella. Twenty-four Hundred Tennessee Pensioners: Revolution, War of 1812. Originally published Chattanooga, 1937. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981, 1987. Call no. 976.8 A739T Armstrong, Zella. Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution, Compiled from Pension Statements. Originally published Chattanooga, 1933. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989. Call no. 976.8 A739S McCown, Mary Hardin and Inez E. Burns. Soldiers of the War of 1812 Buried in Tennessee. Johnson City, Tenn.: Tennessee Society, USD of 1812, 1959. Call no. Q 976.8 M131S Sistler, Byron. Tennesseans in the War of 1812. Nashville: Byron Sistler & Associates, 1992. Call no. 976.8 S623T NATIVE AMERICAN Satz, Ronald N. Tennessee s Indian Peoples: From White Contact to Removal, 1540-1840. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979. Call no. R 970.0049 S254T NEWSPAPERS Tennessee State Library and Archives. State Library Division. Tennessee Newspapers: A Cumulative List of Microfilmed Tennessee Newspapers in the Tennessee State Library. Nashville: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1969. Call no. R 976.8 T297T 5
OBITUARIES Baker, Russell Pierce. Obituaries and Marriage Notices from the Tennessee Baptist, 1844-1862. Easley, S. C.: Southern Historical Press, 1979. Call no. R 976.8 B168O and 976.8 B168O Garrett, Jill L. Obituaries from Tennessee Newspapers. Easley, S. C.: Silas E. Lucas, 1980. Reprint, Greenville, S. C.: Southern Historical Press, 1980. Call no. R 976.8 G239O PLACE NAMES Fullerton, Ralph O. Place Names of Tennessee. Nashville: State of Tennessee, 1974. Call no. R 976.8 F971P Siler, Tom. Tennessee Towns: From Adams to Yorkville. Knoxville: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1985. Call no. 976.8 S582T SCOTS-IRISH Kennedy, Billy. The Scots-Irish in the Hills of Tennessee. Greenville, S. C.: Emerald House Group, 1995. Call no. 976.8 K35S SLAVERY Cimprich, John. Slavery s End in Tennessee, 1861-1865. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1985. Call no. R 976.8 C573S TAX LISTS Sistler, Byron and Barbara. Index to Early Tennessee Tax Lists. Evanston, Ill.: Sistler, 1977. Call no. Q 976.8 S623I WILLS Sistler, Byron & Barbara. Index to Tennessee Wills & Administrations, 1779-1861. Nashville: Byron Sistler & Associates, 1990. Call no. R 976.8 S623I and 976.8 S623I History & Genealogy at St. Louis County Library 1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63131-3598 (314) 994-3300, Ext. 2070 genealogy@slcl.org WWW.SLCL.ORG 6 8 / 2009, Rev. 4 / 2015