Guide to County Records and Genealogical Resources in Tennessee
Guide to County Records and Genealogical Resources in Tennessee

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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0806311754

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This fabulous work is a county-by-county guide to the genealogical records and resources at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville. Based largely on the Tennessee county records microfilmed by the LDS Genealogical Library, it is an inventory of extant county records and their dates of coverage. For each county the following data is given: formation, county seat, names and addresses of libraries and genealogical societies, published records (alphabetical by author), W.P.A. typescript records, microfilmed records (LDS), manuscripts, and church records. The LDS microfilm covers almost every record that could be used by the genealogist, from vital records to optometry registers, from wills and inventories to school board minutes. There also is a comprehensive list of statewide reference works.

The Book of Ragan/Reagan
The Book of Ragan/Reagan

Author: Donald B. Reagan

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13:

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The Reagans are said to have originated in County Meath, Ireland. The O Regans of Meath consituted one of the four tribes of Tara. The earliest tracable ancestor was a Timothy Ragan who was born in about 1678 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He was the father of eight children. one of his descendants was Timothy Ragan (1750-1830) who married Elizabeth Trigg (1760-?). They were the parents of twelve children and moved after the Revolutionary War to Tennessee where they settled in Sevier County. Descendants live in Tennessee.

Beyond Slavery's Shadow
Beyond Slavery's Shadow

Author: Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2021-09-15

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1469664402

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On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In Beyond Slavery's Shadow, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. draws from a wide array of sources to demonstrate that from the colonial period through the Civil War, the growing influence of white supremacy and proslavery extremism created serious challenges for free persons categorized as "negroes," "mulattoes," "mustees," "Indians," or simply "free people of color" in the South. Segregation, exclusion, disfranchisement, and discriminatory punishment were ingrained in their collective experiences. Nevertheless, in the face of attempts to deny them the most basic privileges and rights, free people of color defended their families and established organizations and businesses. These people were both privileged and victimized, both celebrated and despised, in a region characterized by social inconsistency. Milteer's analysis of the way wealth, gender, and occupation intersected with ideas promoting white supremacy and discrimination reveals a wide range of social interactions and life outcomes for the South's free people of color and helps to explain societal contradictions that continue to appear in the modern United States.

Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans
Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans

Author: William S. Speer

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9780806317151

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"I had a native ambition to rise from obscurity and make myself useful in the world, to shine and be distinguished." So said the Hon. Neil S. Brown, one of the 259 prominent 19th-century Tennesseans profiled in this extraordinary book. It is this kind of unique first-hand biographical information that makes this work unequaled in the canon of Tennessee genealogical literature. Not only did compiler William S. Speer have the unparalleled opportunity to interview a number of the featured Tennesseans himself, he also was able to garner--and include in this book--thousands and thousands of names of their family members, friends, and colleagues. The biographical sketches include numerous details about the lives of the subjects and their families. In addition, the compiler offers insight into the personal, professional, and sometimes even physical characteristics that made each of these men a success.