Paris Tennessee Family History Center

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 * 1) 1921 Lone Oak Rd., Paris, TN 38242
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Phone: 731-642-2285

E-mail: tn_paris@ldsmail.net

Open Hours: Wednesday 9:00 am-2:00pm and 6:00pm-8:00pm

Thursday 9:00 a.m.-2:00p.m.

Databases and Software

 * FHC Portal This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions. (Note to FHC: Not all FHCs have access to this portal. If you do not, you will want to remove this entire bullet. If you do have access to it, just remove this text in italics.)

19th Century British Library Newspaper Digital Archive • Access Newspaper Archive • Alexander Street Press - The American Civil War Research Database|Letters and Diaries |Images, Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera • Ancestry.com • ArkivDigital Online ◦Launch from the 'ArkivDigital Online' Start Menu or Desktop icon. • Find My Past • Fold3.com Previously known as Footnote.com • Godfrey Memorial Library • Heritage Quest Online • Historic Map Works Library Edition • LegacyStories • Paper Trail • World Vital Records

Hardware and Equipment


-1microfilm reader -1 microfiche reader -3 computers -printer

The church building has wifi access for laptops and mobile devices.

Staff Research Specialties
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Resources in the Local Area
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County Courthouse

Henry County Courthouse 100 W Washington Street Paris, TN 38242-0024 Phone: 731.642.2412

Register of Deeds has land records County Clerk has birth, marriage, death and probate records. Clerk Circuit Court has court records. [2]

Henry County Courthouse P.O. Box 7 101 West Washington St. Paris, TN 38242 Phone: 1-731-642-2412

Henry County Clerk Birth, Marriage, Death and probate records 101 W. Washington St. P.O. Box 24 Paris, TN 38242 Phone: 1-731-642-2412

Henry County Register of Deeds Land records 213 W. Washington St., 2nd floor P.O. Box 44 Paris, TN 38242 Phone: 1-731-642-4081

Henry County Circuit Court Clerk P.O. Box 429 Paris, TN 38242 Phone: 1-731-642-0461 Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Societies and Libraries

Henry County Genealogical Society P.O. BOX 1411 Paris, TN 38242 Phone: 1-731-644-9040

W.G. Rhea Public Library 400 W Washington St Paris, TN Phone: 1-731-642-1702 Hours: Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues. and Thurs. 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

West Tennessee Heritage Study Center Paul Meek Library University of Tennessee at Martin Phone: 1-731-881-7060 Hours vary by semester

West Tennessee Historical Society P.O. Box 111046 Memphis, TN 38111 Phone: 1-901-475-6608 E-mail: efrank@memphis.edu

Henry County Archives

215 Grove Boulevard, Suite A

Paris, TN 38242

Phone: 731-642-3638

E-mail: henrycountyarchives@gmail.com

Hours: Mon., and Wed., 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Other times by appointment

Genealogical Resources: The W.O. Inman Room is housed in the Rhea Public Library and has a variety of resources including Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, Military Records, Divorce Records, Estate Records, Newspapers including the Paris Post-Intellegencer andTriCounty Star, Funeral Home Records, Cemetery Records, Census Records, and Land Records. For more information, see the Henry County Archive and Genealogy Library website.

The Heritage Study Center holds a variety of genealogical resources including materials relating to the following counties in Tennessee: Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer,Fayette, Gibson, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Houston, Humphreys, Lake, Lauderdale,Madison, McNairy, Obion, Perry, Shelby, Stewart, Tipton, Wayne, Weakley and Carlisle, Fulton, and Hickman counties in Kentucky.

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