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East Tennessee's Forgotten Children: Apprentices from 1778 to 1911

A book by Alan N. Miller, II. For sale from Genealogical Publishing Company.

FamilySearch Catalog - The ancestry of General James Robertson, 'Father of Tennessee' : addendum to 'The Complete ancestry of Tennessee Williams'

Gen. James Randolph Robertson is a significant historical personality. Andrew Jackson called him the Father of Tennessee for leading the perilous settlement, far beyond the then frontier, into the middle TN area.

First Families of Tennessee

A heritage program sponsored by the East Tennessee Historical Society, honoring descendants of the first settlers of Tennessee.

First People of Tennessee

GEDCOM Index - Tennessee

Index of GEDCOM files found online, arranged by surname and given name.

Landscape of Liberation - The African American Geography of Civil War Tennessee

An interactive map showing the landscape of emancipation as it unfolded from 1861 to 1865. Every point on the map is linked to primary documents and images that tell the story of people, places, and events.

Maryville Tennessee Biographies

Melungeon Heritage Association, Inc.

Online County and Town Histories - Tennessee

This site provides over 3,000 links to free county and town histories published from 1850 to the early 1920s. These histories often contain detailed biographies of their citizens.

Our Family Tree - Tennessee Genealogy

Collection of family trees and resources for the state of Tennessee: Denton, Burks, Smithson, Siler, Williams, Pope, Jones, Marriott, Edney, Strange

P.A. Miller - Slave Records from my research

Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Maryland.

People of Color in Old Tennessee

Pioneering Families of East Tennessee

Includes the counties of Hamblen, Grainger, Hawkins, Greene, etc. Surnames include Thomason, Purkey, Thompson, Dean, Roddy, Rogan, Taylor, and many more.

Profiles of African Americans in Tennesee

From the Library at Tennessee State University.

Runaway Slave Blog

This ongoing project is a collection of African American slave names that were printed in west Tennessee newspapers before 1865. These men, women and children were advertised as runaway slaves or listed as property for sale.

Scotch-Irish of Tennessee

Taken from The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings of the Scotch-Irish Congress at Columbia, Tennessee, May 8-11, 1889.

Settlers and Intruders on Cherokee Indian Lands 1801-1816

Excerpts from the papers of the Cherokee Indian Agency in Tennessee.

Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842 - Digital Library of Georgia

Contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.

Tennessee African American Griots

This site is dedicated to preserving Tennessee African American Genealogy and History.

The Chickasaw and Their Cessions