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Temple, Oliver Perry and Mary Boyce Temple. ''Notable Men of Tennessee, from 1833 to 1875: Their Times and Their Contemporaries.'' New York, New York : Cosmopolitan Press, 1912. Digital versions available at [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=25364 Ancestry] ($); [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH32&CISOPTR=52982 BYU Family History Archives]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=ha0DAAAAYAAJ Google Books] [full view]; and [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=qcdtn10024_notablemen World Vital Records] ($). | Temple, Oliver Perry and Mary Boyce Temple. ''Notable Men of Tennessee, from 1833 to 1875: Their Times and Their Contemporaries.'' New York, New York : Cosmopolitan Press, 1912. Digital versions available at [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=25364 Ancestry] ($); [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH32&CISOPTR=52982 BYU Family History Archives]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=ha0DAAAAYAAJ Google Books] [full view]; and [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=qcdtn10024_notablemen World Vital Records] ($). | ||
''The Calvin M. McClung Collection'', which is described in the | ''The Calvin M. McClung Collection'', which is described in the [[Tennessee Archives and Libraries|Tennessee Archives and Libraries]] article, contains biographical material for residents of Tennessee. | ||
The Tennessee Library and Archives and the Memphis | The [http://www.tn.gov/tsla/index.htm Tennessee Library and Archives] and the [http://www.memphislibrary.org/ Memphis Public Library and Information Center] maintain extensive card indexes to [http://state.tn.us/tsla/history/manuscripts/index.htm biographical sketches] in histories and related works. The Tennessee Library and Archives has an online index to ''[http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/misc/goodspeed.htm The History of Tennessee From the Earliest Time to the Present]''. Nashville : Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1886-1887. The Tennessee Historical Society, listed in the “[[Tennessee Societies|Societies]]” section of this outline, has an extensive family surname file and a large collection of personal and family histories. | ||
The Surname Search of the Family History Library Catalog will lead you to biographies and published family histories on specific surnames. Using the term “Tennessee” in the Keyword Search will narrow the search to families in Tennessee. | The Surname Search of the Family History Library Catalog will lead you to biographies and published family histories on specific surnames. Using the term “Tennessee” in the Keyword Search will narrow the search to families in Tennessee. | ||