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Welcome to Tennessee Genealogy

Research in Tennessee can be an exciting and rewarding experience. With records available for more than 200 years of the state's history, your family is sure to be found in a variety of records available online and at the many archives and libraries located throughout the state.

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African-American Genealogy

Google Books - 1790-1865 The Negro in Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - ​Campbell Family Photographs

TNGenWeb Project - ​Miller Family Photographs

TNGenWeb Project - ​Miscellaneous Photographs

TNGenWeb Project - ​Nathaniel Parham, Jr. and Patty Lee (Miller) Parham

TNGenWeb Project - ​1928 Old Linden Colored School 

TNGenWeb Project - Perry County African/American Research

TNGenWeb - Perry County Tennessee Cemetery Records

TNGenWeb Project - ​Thomas Family of Perry County, Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - ​Wesley Dabbs and Viola Kathryn Pitts

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Linden Family 

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Wesley Dabbs and Viola Kathryn Pitts Dabbs

Archives and Libraries

Perry County Library - Linden Branch

Perry County Library - Lobelville Branch

Perry County Government - Perry County Library

USGenWeb Archives - Perry County, Tennessee

Bible Records

USGenWeb Archives - Perry County, Tennessee

Bibliography

Mountain Press - Tennessee Genealogy Books by County

Tennessee Secretary of State - Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources > Perry County

Biographies

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, Tennessee

My Genealogy Hound - Perry County, Tennessee

USGenWeb Archives - Perry County, Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - Perry County Biographies

Cemeteries

ePodunk - Perry County, Tennessee

Find A Grave - Perry County, Tennessee

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, Tennessee

The Political Graveyard - Perry County, Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - Map of Perry County Cemeteries

TNGenWeb Project - ​Perry County, Tennessee Cemeteries

TNGenWeb Project - Perry Co. TN Cemetery Records

USGenWeb Archives - Perry County, Tennessee

USGenWeb Tombstone Project - Perry County, Tennessee

Census Records

Census Finder - Tennessee Census Records

Census Tools - Electronic Census Spreadsheet

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - Information Provided on Each Census Year Schedule

TNGenWeb Project - ​1890 Veteran’s Schedule

USGenWeb Archives - Perry County, Tennessee

Church Records

TNGenWeb Project - ​Yesterday’s Perry County

Court Records

Perry County Clerk of Circuit Court - Linden, TN

TNGenWeb Project - ​Tennessee Law, the Early Days

Estate Records

TNGenWeb Project - ​1944 A. C. Danshee Will

TNGenWeb Project - 1944 ​D. H. Daniel Will 


TNGenWeb Project - ​1931 G. W. Daniel Will


TNGenWeb Project - ​1914 J. N. Daniel Will


TNGenWeb Project - ​1838 Jeremiah Tubbs Estate

TNGenWeb Project - ​Jorden Dowdy Estate


TNGenWeb Project - ​Perry County Wills and Probates

Family Trees

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - ​DNA Projects Links

TNGenWeb Project - ​Perry County Families

TNGenWeb Project - ​USGenWeb Lineage Researcher Pages

TNGenWeb Project - ​Yesterday’s Perry County
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Yesterday's Perry Co. - History of the Barry Family

Yesterday's Perry Co. - History of My Home

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Linden Family

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Perry County, Tennessee Family Page 

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Wesley Dabbs and Viola Kathryn Pitts Dabbs

General Resources

Census Tools - Electronic Census Spreadsheets

FamilySearch Wiki - Perry County, Tennessee

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, TN Public Records Offices

Perry County Chamber of Commerce - Linden, TN

Perry County Government - Perry County, Tennessee

RootsWeb - Search the DAR Library Catalog

TNGenWeb Project - Resources for Perry County Research

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Introduction to the Resources of Tennessee

History

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, Tennessee

Tennessee Encyclopedia - Perry County, Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - ​1886 Goodspeed Biographical Sketches of Perry County

TNGenWeb Project - ​1886 Goodspeed History of Perry County

TNGenWeb Project - ​Pre-1796 East Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - ​Pre-1796 Middle Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - ​Yesterday’s Perry County

USGenWeb Archives - Perry County, Tennessee

Wikipedia.org - James Tucker Airport

Wikipedia.org - Mousetail Landing State Park

Wikipedia.org - Perry County, Tennessee
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Yesterday's Perry Co. - Perry County Boundaries

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Perry County, Tennessee History

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Unknown School near Linden

Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places - Perry County, Tennessee

Perry County Tourism - Cedar Grove Furnace


Perry County Tourism - Perry County Courthouse

Perry County Tourism - Pinckney's Tomb

Wikipedia.org - National Register of Historic Places - Perry County, Tennessee

Land Records

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, Tennessee

Perry County Register of Deeds - Linden, TN

TNGenWeb Project - 1841 Land Deeds

TNGenWeb Project - Laird Humphreys Deed

TNGenWeb Project - Mary Daniel & Wiley J Daniel Deed

TNGenWeb Project - Patterson Carrington Deed

TNGenWeb Project - ​Perry County Land Deeds

TNGenWeb Project - ​Yesterday’s Perry County

USGenWeb Archives - Perry County, Tennessee

Maps

My Genealogy Hound - Perry County, Tennessee

Perry County Tourism - 2018 Tourism Map & Guide

TNGenWeb Project - Maps by Charles Reeves

TNGenWeb Project - Goodspeed’s 1886 Tennessee Map 

TNGenWeb Project - ​Tennessee Census Maps

TNGenWeb Project - 1818 Tennessee Map

TNGenWeb Project - ​The Maps Our Ancestors Followed

TNGenWeb Project - Three Grand Divisions of Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - ​Yesterday’s Perry County
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Yesterday's Perry Co. - Perry County, Tennessee Maps

Military Records

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, Tennessee

National Archives - WWII Army Casualties: Tennessee

RootsWeb - Tennessee Civil War Sourcebook

RootsWeb - War of 1812

TNGenWeb Project - ​Tennessee and the Civil War

TNGenWeb Project - ​Tennesseans in the Revolutionary War

TNGenWeb Project - ​Tennesseans in the War of 1812

TNGenWeb Project - ​Tennesseans in World War I

TNGenWeb Project - ​Yesterday’s Perry County
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USGenWeb Archives - Perry County, Tennessee

Wikipedia.org - Tennessee in the American Civil War

Native American Genealogy

RootsWeb - 1730-1842 Southeastern Native American Documents

The Chickasaw Nation - Ada, Oklahoma

TNGenWeb Project - Cherokee By Blood

TNGenWeb Project - First People of Tennessee and the American Southeast

TNGenWeb Project - The Intruders

Newspapers

RootsWeb - Abstracts from Tennessee Newspapers

TNGenWeb Project - ​1880 Articles

TNGenWeb Project - ​1912 Articles

TNGenWeb Project - ​1913 Articles

TNGenWeb Project - ​1922 – Cecil Burns Murder

TNGenWeb Project - ​1950’s Elvis in Linden

TNGenWeb Project - ​1959 – Movie made in Flatwoods

TNGenWeb Project - ​1976 First Place Winners in the Bicentennial Float

TNGenWeb Project - ​1962 L.H.S. Speaker

TNGenWeb Project - ​Little Linden

TNGenWeb Project - ​Nearly Eight Feet High – The Tallest Man in Tennessee

TNGenWeb Project - ​Perry County Newspapers

TNGenWeb Project - ​Sherriff Elmer Garner

Obituaries

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, Tennessee

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TNGenWeb Project - Tom Ayers – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - Jasper Bates – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Myrtle Cotton Bell – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Drema Suzanne Carlton – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Rhuben Henry Clayborn – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Tommie Lou Coleman – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Charlie Haywood Cook – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Corp David C. Westbrooks

TNGenWeb Project - Edna M. Creasy – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Eddie Ray “Chigger” Daniel – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Mamie Estelle Cotham Daniel – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​William Andrew Daniel – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Donald Austin DePriest – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Elmer Dickson – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Thelma Lynn Dickson – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Fay Dudley – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Albert Ellison – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Ralph Hinson – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Stanfield Hinson – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Nancy Randle Horner – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Margaret Ellen Kittrell – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Guy Maars – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Sammy Franklin Maars – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Betty Jewel Mathis – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Odie Lee Horner Holder Mathis – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Billy Ralph “Bubber” McCaig – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - James Howard McCoy – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Charles Muller – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Cecil Parnell – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Asbury Qualls – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Captola Ramey – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​John L. Ramey – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Louie Eugene Ramey – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Mary Shelton – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Fount Tillman Smothers – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Elsie “Nona” Spencer – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - Loyd Tatum – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Silas W. Trull – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - James T. Ward – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Sallie Dickson Ward – Obituary

TNGenWeb Project - William L. Ward – Obituary

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Troy Westbrooks – Obituary

USGenWeb Archives - Perry County, Tennessee

Photographs

National Archives - Perry County, Tennessee

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Billy Tucker Farm


Yesterday's Perry Co. - Cedar Creek Part 1

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Cedar Creek Part 2

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Cedar Creek Part 3

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Cedar Grove Iron Works

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Cypress Creek

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Flatwoods Part 1

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Flatwoods Part 2

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Flatwoods Part 3

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Marsh Creek-Buckford Methodist Church

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Marvin Farm

Yesterday's Perry Co. - Moore Farm

Yesterday's Perry Co. - George Thomas Home

Yesterday's Perry Co. - John Thomas Home

TNGenWeb Project - Daniel’s Grill and Bus Station

TNGenWeb Project - 1904 Jury Duty

TNGenWeb Project - Perry Co. TN Court House

Queries & Mailing Lists

TNGenWeb Project - ​Pre-1796 East Tennessee 

TNGenWeb Project - ​Pre-1796 Middle Tennessee

School Records

Perry County Government - Perry County Schools

TNGenWeb Project - ​Yesterday’s Perry County

Societies

Perry County Historical Society - Linden, TN

Tennessee Society Daughters of the American Revolution - Perry County, TN

Tax Records

TNGenWeb Project - ​1837 Perry County Tax List – Districts 1-6

TNGenWeb Project - ​1837 Tax List – Districts 7-12


TNGenWeb Project - ​1862 Tax List

​Towns, Cities & Townships

City of Linden - Linden, Tennessee

City of Lobelville - Lobelville, Tennessee

Perry County Government - Scenes of Linden

Perry County Government - Scenes from Lobelville

TNGenWeb Project - ​Yesterday’s Perry County

Wikipedia.org - Linden, Tennessee

Wikipedia.org - ​Lobelville, Tennessee

Vital Records

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, TN Birth Records

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, TN Death Records

Genealogy Trails History Group - Perry County, TN Marriage Records

Perry County Clerk - Linden, TN

Shelby County Register of Deeds - 1949-2014 Death Records Index

TNGenWeb Project - Annie Conder Birth Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​B. William Oakley – Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Cecil Burn Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Clyde Andrew Daniel Death Certificate

TNGenWeb Project - Clint Daniel Birth Certificate

TNGenWeb Project - ​1865 – 1969 Complete List of Marriages

TNGenWeb Project - ​1870 – 1874 Complete List of Marriages

TNGenWeb Project - ​1875 – 1879 Complete List of Marriages

TNGenWeb Project - ​1880 – 1884 Complete List of Marriages

TNGenWeb Project - 1885 – 1889 ​Complete List of Marriages

TNGenWeb Project - 1890 – 1894 ​Complete List of Marriages

​TNGenWeb Project - ​1908-1912 Death Index

​TNGenWeb Project - ​1914-1927 Death Index

​TNGenWeb Project - ​1928-1931 Death Index

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Death Records

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Edgar J. Duncan – Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Elonzo Ervin Tatum – Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Ethel DePriest – Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Hattie Arnold Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​James Crockett Daniel Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Jess Buford Weems

TNGenWeb Project - Lillie Daniel Birth Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Martha Sussan Weems Twilla – Death Certificate

TNGenWeb Project - Mary Louise Daniel Birth Certificate

TNGenWeb Project - Mary Twilla Birth Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Melvina Bussell Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Mollie E. Daniel – Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​1850 Mortality Schedule

​TNGenWeb Project - ​1860 Mortality Schedule

​TNGenWeb Project - ​1880 Mortality Schedule

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Nancy Roberts – Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Nathan S. Horner – Death Certificate

TNGenWeb Project - ​1865 – 1919 Marriages Partial Listing

TNGenWeb Project - Perry County Birth Records

TNGenWeb Project - ​Perry Co. TN Marriage Records

TNGenWeb Project - Raymond Nelson Daniel Birth Certificate

TNGenWeb - Sickness & Death in the Old South

TNGenWeb Project - ​1916 Tennessee State Marriages Perry County 

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Thomas R. Faulkner – Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Van Buren Daniel – Death Certificate

TNGenWeb Project - ​Various Marriages

TNGenWeb Project - ​Westbrooks Marriage License

​TNGenWeb Project - ​W. R. Conder Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​Will J. Bates Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​William Allen Daniel – Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​William Coble Death Certificate

​TNGenWeb Project - ​William Howard Daniel Death Certificate

TNGenWeb Project - ​William Thomas Weems

TNGenWeb Project - WM H Daniel Birth Certificate

VitalChek - Tennessee Vital Records

​Vitalrec.com - Tennessee Vital Records
Many Tennessee family records can be found online and at various archives and libraries located throughout the state of Tennessee. Many millions of records aren't yet available online, though, and many of these are awaiting your discovery at the local level at county courthouses, historical societies, churches, county clerks' offices, cemeteries, and elsewhere in Tennessee. To find these and other records, click on the links below to find more information about the specific counties where your ancestors lived in Tennessee. You'll find information on these pages that will lead you to the specific documentation you're searching for.

It is important to keep in mind when doing research that the names and boundaries of certain counties in Tennessee have changed over the past two hundred years. Your ancestors may have lived on a certain farm in one county and when borders were redrawn records relating to your family history might have been located in another area entirely. When searching for land, court, tax, and other records it is also a good idea to search for these records in adjacent counties. Following is a complete list of Tennessee's 95 counties along with their formation dates, county seats, and names of parent counties.
County

Anderson County

Bedford County

Benton County

Bledsoe County

Blount County

Bradley County

Campbell County

Cannon County

Carroll County

Carter County

Cheatham County


Chester County


Claiborne County

Clay County

Cocke County

Coffee County

Crockett County


Cumberland County


Davidson County

Decatur County

DeKalb County


Dickson County

Dyer County

Fayette County

Fentress County

Franklin County

Gibson County

Giles County

Grainger County

Greene County

Grundy County

Hamblen County

Hamilton County

Hancock County

Hardeman County

Hardin County

Hawkins County

Haywood County

Henderson County

Henry County

Hickman County

Houston County


Humphreys County

Jackson County

Jefferson County

Johnson County

Knox County

Lake County

Lauderdale County

Lawrence County

Lewis County


Lincoln County

Loudon County


Macon County

Madison County

Marion County

Marshall County


Maury County

McMinn County

McNairy County

Meigs County

Monroe County

Montgomery County

Moore County

Morgan County

Obion County

Overton County

Perry County

Pickett County

Polk County

Putnam County


Rhea County

Roane County

Robertson County

Rutherford County


Scott County


Sequatchie County

Sevier County

Shelby County

Smith County

Stewart County

Sullivan County

Tipton County

Trousdale County


Unicoi County

Union County


Van Buren County

Warren County


Washington County

Wayne County

Weakley County

White County

Williamson County

Wilson County
Formation Date

1801

1807

1835

1807

1795

1836

1806

1836

1821

1796

1856


1879


1801

1870

1797

1836

1871


1855


1783

1845

1837


1803

1823

1824

1823

1807

1823

1809

1796

1783

1844

1870

1819

1844

1823

1819

1786

1823

1821

1821

1807

1871


1809

1801

1792

1836

1792

1870

1835

1817

1843


1809

1870


1842

1821

1817

1836


1807

1819

1823

1836

1819

1796

1871

1817

1823

1806

1819

1879

1839

1854


1807

1801

1796

1803


1849


1857

1794

1819

1799

1803

1779

1823

1870


1875

1850


1840

1807


1777

1817

1823

1806

1799

1799
County Seat

Clinton

Shelbyville

Camden

Pikeville

Maryville

Cleveland

Jacksboro

Woodbury

Huntingdon

Elizabethton

Ashland City


Henderson


Tazewell

Celina

Newport

Manchester

Alamo


Crossville


Nashville

Decaturville

Smithville


Charlotte

Dyersburg

Somerville

Jamestown

Winchester

Trenton

Pulaski

Rutledge

Greeneville

Altamont

Morristown

Chattanooga

Sneedville

Bolivar

Savannah

Rogersville

Brownsville

Lexington

Paris

Centerville

Erin


Waverly

Gainesboro

Dandridge

Mountain City

Knoxville

Tiptonville

Ripley

Lawrenceburg

Hohenwald


Fayetteville

Loudon


Lafayette

Jackson

Jasper

Lewisburg


Columbia

Athens

Selmer

Decatur

Madisonville

Clarksville

Lynchburg

Wartburg

Union City

Livingston

Linden

Byrdstown

Benton

Cookeville


Dayton

Kingston

Springfield

Murfreesboro


Huntsville


Dunlap

Sevierville

Memphis

Carthage

Dover

Blountville

Covington

Hartsville


Erwin

Maynardville


Spencer

McMinnville


Jonesborough

Waynesboro

Dresden

Sparta

Franklin

Lebanon
Parent County

Knox and Grainger

Rutherford County

Humphreys County

Roane & Indian lands

Knox County

Indian lands

Anderson & Claiborne

Rutherford, Smith & Warren

Indian lands

Washington County

Davidson, Dickson, Montgomery, & Robertson

Henderson, McNairy & Madison

Grainger & Hawkins

Jackson & Overton

Jefferson County

Bedford, Warren & Franklin

Haywood, Madison, Dyer & Gibson

White, Bledsoe, Rhea, Morgan, Fentress & Putnam

Part of North Carolina

Perry County

Franklin, Cannon, Jackson & White

Montgomery and Robertson

Indian lands

Indian lands

Morgan, Overton & White

Rutherford & Indian lands

Indian lands

Indian lands

Hawkins & Knox counties

Washington County

Coffee, Warren & Franklin

Jefferson, Grainger & Greene

Rhea & Indian lands

Hawkins & Claiborne

Hardin & Indian lands

Indian Lands

Sullivan County

Indian lands

Indian lands

Indian lands

Dickson County

Dickson, Humphreys, Montgomery & Stewart

Stewart County

Smith County & Indian lands

Greene & Hawkins

Carter County

Greene & Hawkins

Obion County

Haywood, Dyer & Tipton

Hickman & Indian lands

Hickman, Lawrence, Maury & Wayne

Bedford County

Roane, Monroe, Blount & McMinn

Smith and Sumner counties

Indian lands

Indian lands

Giles, Bedford, Lincoln & Maury

Williamson & Indian lands

Indian lands

Hardin County

Rhea County

Indian lands

Tennessee County

Bedford, Lincoln & Franklin

Anderson & Roane

Indian lands

Jackson & Indian lands

Humphreys & Hickman

Fentress & Overton

McMinn & Bradley

Fentress, Jackson, Smith, White & Overton

Roane County

Knox & Indian lands

Tennessee & Sumner

Davidson, Williamson & Wilson

Anderson, Campbell, Fentress & Morgan counties

Hamilton, Marion & Warren

Jefferson County

Chickasaw Nation lands

Sumner & Indian lands

Montgomery County

Washington County

Shelby County

Wilson, Macon, Smith
& Sumner counties

Washington & Carter

Grainger, Claiborne, Campbell, Anderson & Knox

Warren & White

White, Jackson, Smith & Indian lands

Part of North Carolina

Hickman County

Indian lands

Jackson & Smith

Davidson County

Sumner County

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