Just in time for the FGS Conference in Knoxville, the Tennessee pages of the FamilySearch Research Wiki have been updated. The following news release was written by FamilySearch staff.
The Tennessee page on the FamilySearch Research Wiki has recently been updated and now includes a wealth of new information and resources to help people find their [...]
In two years, students, historians, and anyone else curious about nearly a century of history should have 100,000 pages of Tennessee newspapers at their fingertips. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize local newspapers from 1836 to 1922.
“This is telling what the people [...]
The following information was received this morning from Paul Nauta with FamilySearch:
There were over 150 new collections added or enhanced this week at FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch volunteers indexed over 120 million records — over 300 million new names — from original source documents to accomplish this great feat. The massive release was announced [...]
The following small databases were recently added to the Family Tree Connection database:
ALABAMA
Alabama’s White Regiments during the Spanish-American War - Southern Martyrs. A History of Alabama’s White Regiments during the Spanish-American War, Touching Incidentally on the Experiences of The Entire First Division of the Seventh Army Corps. By Seargeant M. Koenigsberg.
Birmingham High Schools [...]
The recession continues to take it’s toll on genealogy research facilities. The hours at the popular T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library in Greeneville, Tennessee have been shortened by almost half.
The T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library, which has been temporarily closed since Oct. 12, plans to re-open on Wednesday, Oct. [...]
Don Miller has been named the new executive director of the Greeneville-Greene County Public Library.
Miller’s appointment, effective Thursday, was approved Monday evening by the library’s board of directors.
Miller has served as director of the T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library since it opened nine years ago as a branch of the [...]
A letter written in 1824, by President Andrew Jackson, prior to his presidency, has been recovered and returned to the New York State State Library, from which it was stolen.
The letter was for sale in an on-line auction site for $35,000. UT Professor Tom Coens spotted the item online, recognized it, and reported [...]
In the last four days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many turn of the century newspapers, as well as numerous papers from the 1870s and 1880s. Twenty-one states are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented.
I am pleased to again announce that the folks at [...]
Greenback Historical Society has presented Volume I of the Greenback Heritage Scrapbook to Blount County Genealogical and Historical Society to be housed at the Blount County Public Library.
The scrapbook, which covers years prior to 1900, is one of four volumes currently being researched and printed by the Greenback Scrapbook Committee of the Greenback Community Club. [...]
The Greene County Commission in Greeneville, Tennessee, has approved a resolution appropriating $1,000 for acid-free folders for the T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library. The folders will be used for archiving very old Circuit Court records.
From the March 18, 2009 edition of the Greeneville Sun.
My friend, Arlene Eakle launched a new blog today. She’s calling it Arlene Eakle’s Tennessee Genealogy Blog. Why launch today? According to Arlene, this being March 17, she’s launching “… in observance of the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals which launched the legal occupation of Tennessee in 1775.” Her blog today is a detailed examination of [...]
The following excerpt is from a much longer article about the acquisition of a new microfilm reader/printer for the T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library in Greenville, Tennessee.
The Greene County Commission’s Records Committee was told Thursday that because of a missed deadline, the T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library will not get [...]
Following is a teaser from an interesting article about an LDS couple working with historic records found in Tennessee county courthouses. According to the article in the February 8, 2009 Herald-Citizen, the repaired and sorted courthouse records will be first microfilmed and then digitized. Interesting…
PUTNAM COUNTY [Tennessee] — Charlie and Dixie Murray are getting a [...]
The following was received today from Linda Woodward Geiger:
FGS 2010 Annual Conference: Rediscovering America’s First Frontier at the Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, 18-21 August 2010 - Request for Lecture Proposals - Deadline: 1 May 2009
We encourage lecture topics that focus on the historic and cultural roots of Tennessee and Kentucky as well as [...]
Deborah Scruggs-Cox wants to do something positive about the lack of written history for McMinn County, Tennessee’s African-American families. To this end, she is asking local residents to share their stories. Many of the stories will later be compiled into a book.
For more information, see the January 19, 2009 edition of the Daily Post [...]
