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Marriage Records
Guide To Vital Records
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For Further Reading
Comments And Suggestions Registers
A gazetteer is a list and description of places, such as villages, towns, cities, and may also mention neighborhoods, cemeteries, sizes of population, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. It can be used to locate the places where your family lived. It usually includes only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. The place names are generally listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. Guides to place names in Tennessee include:
Fullerton, Ralph O. Place Names of Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn.: Tennessee Dept. of Conservation, Division of Geology, 1974. (FHL book 976.8 E2f; film 928174 item 2; computer number 255207.) The record is arranged alphabetically by county, then alphabetically by place. Included is the quadrangle of each place.
Easton Morris’ Tennessee Gazetteer 1834 and Matthew Rhea’s Map of the State of Tennessee 1832
GAZETTEERS
Tennessee Geographic Names: Alphabetical Listing. Reston, Va.: U.S. Geological Survey, 1985. (FHL book 976.8 E2u; computer number 526761.) The record includes the name of each place, type of feature, county, coordinates, elevation in feet, source, and map.
For more place-finding aids for Tennessee, see the “Maps” section of this outline. The United States Research Outline (30972) contains additional sources and information on gazetteers. Tennessee gazetteers are listed in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under:
TENNESSEE- GAZETTEERSTENNESSEE- HISTORYTENNESSEE- NAMES, GEOGRAPHICAL
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