Wednesday, July 13, 2011

FamilySearch Scans of Probate Records

FamilySearch has scanned images from probate files all over Tennessee and made the images available to everyone.

They currently have:

Tennessee Probate Court Files 1784-1920
Inventories, Wills 1784-1836
Wills, Volume 1 to Volume 57 1784-1941

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Tennessee Genealogy Research Community

Visit the TENNESSEE GENEALOGY RESEARCH COMMUNITY on Facebook. The community is sponsored by the FamilySearch Wiki, and hopes to bring researchers with similar interests together.

Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) Changes

TSLA has new hours...

Starting July 1, TSLA will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Central Time. Professional librarians and archivists will be on duty during all business hours and the manuscripts section will be open during those hours. Patrons will still be able to send inquiries to the reference desk any time at reference.tsla@tn.gov .

Monday, February 7, 2011

1850 Census Transcription

If you haven't read the home page lately, you may not know, but we are fortunate enough to have Ed and Valerie Cox transcribing the 1850 Census for us. They are presently working on the Nashville portion and we have about 60 pages up already (they are moving at an amazing speed). If 1850 is a year you are interested in, take a look. If the page you need is not up yet, check back soon, there are new pages going up daily.

A huge thank you to Ed and Val for such a valuable contribution to the Davidson County site.

Monday, January 24, 2011

The Nashville Retrospect

If you had ancestors in Nashville, or if you are like me, and grew up in a Nashville much different than the one of today, you should have every copy of this newspaper. I have not read a single issue that hasn't carried me back to my childhood and reminded me of memories long forgotten.

The Nashville Retrospect is a great mix of reprints from old newspaper articles
(all the way back to the 1800s), as well as first person accounts of
life and events in early Nashville.

If you are local, you can pick up your FREE monthly copy at over 300 locations
city-wide. If you are out of town, a subscription is available for a nominal
charge. And the best news, they have back issues available for ordering, so you
still have a chance to catch up (my missing copies arrived 48 hours
after I ordered them).

Check out Editor and Publisher Allen Forkum's gift to Nashville history lovers.



The Nashville Retrospect