Stirpes, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1961 Page: 22
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in a county where the courthouse has burned.
9. Ooodspeed in 1886 published histories of most of the
Tennessee counties and included marriage, military,
church, school, and other records and biographies.
If the courthouse burned after 1886, this is a good
source. The State Library has copies, as do other
libraries sinoe the books have been mlorofllmed.
10. Write to the editor of the town or county seat newraper.
If a town or county history or genealogy has
been written by someone in his area, the editor will
know of it.
11. If your people were member of fraternal, religious,
or military organizations, contact the lodge, church,
etc. in the county seat. Masonic groups kept good
records even in small villages. Denominational
records will vary. Find out where the records of
the circuits (Methodist) were deposited. Most country
churches also had adjacent cemeteries where tombstone
inscriptions may be obtained.
12. If you plan to do summer research in Tennessee counties,
write the clerk to discover what days and hours they are
open. Most of these close either on Wednesday or Thursday
all day, but are open on Saturdays a full day.
Find out if the courthouse is air-conditioned, then
see if the records are duplicated at iashville. Many
record vaults are stifling in summer, but the same
records may be researched at the air-conditioned State
Library In Nashville.
13. Deed records are not found in the office of the County
Clerk but in the office of the County Register.
14. Search the deed records from the first available datemany
times deeds were not recorded-until many years
after they were made. Where court houses burned,
deeds may have been called in to be re-recorded,
15. Do not confine your search for a family record to the
Family Bible. Other old books which have been passed
down may contain birthdates on the fly lesa, anecdotes
scribbled by a student, or names of relatives. Often
copies of a will may be found in a favorite book. A
used book store in the town or vicinity will have many
such discarded volumes.
16. A handbook, Tennessee Historical Markers, contains
285 pages of valuable material for the entire state.
(4 Also available from the Historical Comtission are:22
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