The fourteen books included on this CD cover a time period both shortly before and shortly after Tennessee was erected as a state from North Carolina in 1796 and identify a large proportion of Tennessee's original settlers.
Compiled from traditional record sources, these books generally contain a selection of county, state, church, and family records, specifically cemetery records; Bible records; records of deeds, wills, and marriages; Revolutionary and War of 1812 payroll and pension records; militia records; and census records.
Of the 165,000 persons named in these books, many are found in the carefully crafted genealogies which the authors developed from out-of-the-way sources in North Carolina and Tennessee.
In order to read the CD you must use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher), which is available as a free download at www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
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