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County marriage records are the earliest and most complete vital records for Tennessee. The records which have survived usually begin within a few years of each county’s organization. Marriage records from the earliest dates to the present are kept by the county clerk for each county. Since 1 January 1949, duplicates have been sent to the [http://health.state.tn.us/vr/PH1670EN.pdf Office of Vital Statistics]. | County marriage records are the earliest and most complete vital records for Tennessee. The records which have survived usually begin within a few years of each county’s organization. Marriage records from the earliest dates to the present are kept by the county clerk for each county. Since 1 January 1949, duplicates have been sent to the [http://health.state.tn.us/vr/PH1670EN.pdf Office of Vital Statistics]. | ||
The Family History Library has microfilm copies of most of the existing county marriage records from the county organization date to the early 1900's. Access these records through the FHL catalog ''Tennessee>County Name. '' Many early Tennessee marriages to about 1890 are extracted and found in the ''International Genealogical Index.'' This index is accessed at [http://www.familysearch.org FamilySearch]. For a breakdown of the Tennessee marriages indexed in the ''International Genealogical Index'', visit Hugh Wallis's ''[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbersNA/SPTennessee.htm#PageTitle IGI Batch Numbers for Tennessee, USA]''. | The Family History Library has microfilm copies of most of the existing county marriage records from the county organization date to the early 1900's. Access these records through the FHL catalog ''Tennessee>County Name. '' Many early Tennessee marriages to about 1890 are extracted and found in the ''International Genealogical Index.'' This index is accessed at [http://www.familysearch.org FamilySearch]. For a breakdown of the Tennessee marriages indexed in the ''International Genealogical Index'', visit Hugh Wallis's ''[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbersNA/SPTennessee.htm#PageTitle IGI Batch Numbers for Tennessee, USA]''. | ||
About 20 Tennessee counties did not begin officially recording marriages in registers until a state law passed mandating the practice in 1838.<ref>Gale Williams Bamman, C.G., "Research in Tennessee," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly,'' Vol. 81, No. 2 (June 1993):105. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;titleno=39597 FHL US/CAN Book 973 B2ng v. 81 (1993)]</ref> Many of the loose marriage licenses and bonds created before that time have been lost. Soderberg and Creekmore quote the ''Acts of Tennessee'' (1838, ch. 118, sec. 2) as follows: | About 20 Tennessee counties did not begin officially recording marriages in registers until a state law passed mandating the practice in 1838.<ref>Gale Williams Bamman, C.G., "Research in Tennessee," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly,'' Vol. 81, No. 2 (June 1993):105. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;titleno=39597 FHL US/CAN Book 973 B2ng v. 81 (1993)]</ref> Many of the loose marriage licenses and bonds created before that time have been lost. Soderberg and Creekmore quote the ''Acts of Tennessee'' (1838, ch. 118, sec. 2) as follows: | ||
:It was not until 1838 that the clerks were required "to keep a well bound book, in which they shall register the names of the parties, and the date of issuance of each marriage license."<ref>Soderberg, Gertrude L. and Pollyanna Creekmore. ''Tennessee Marriage Records, Volume 3, Greene County, Volume 1, 1783-1818: Being Transcriptions from the Original Bonds and Licenses at the County Courthouse, Greeneville''. (Knoxville, Tenn.: Clinchdale Press, 1965), Introduction. {{FHL|976.891 V2s|book}}.</ref><br> | :It was not until 1838 that the clerks were required "to keep a well bound book, in which they shall register the names of the parties, and the date of issuance of each marriage license."<ref>Soderberg, Gertrude L. and Pollyanna Creekmore. ''Tennessee Marriage Records, Volume 3, Greene County, Volume 1, 1783-1818: Being Transcriptions from the Original Bonds and Licenses at the County Courthouse, Greeneville''. (Knoxville, Tenn.: Clinchdale Press, 1965), Introduction. {{FHL|976.891 V2s|book}}.</ref><br> | ||
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The following counties, though many had been in existence for more than a decade, did not begin registering marriages until that time: [[Anderson County, Tennessee|Anderson]], [[Benton County, Tennessee|Benton]], [[Campbell County, Tennessee|Campbell]], [[Cannon County, Tennessee|Cannon]], [[Carroll County, Tennessee|Carroll]], [[Claiborne County, Tennessee|Claiborne]], [[Fayette County, Tennessee|Fayette]], [[Franklin County, Tennessee|Franklin]], [[Henry County, Tennessee|Henry]], [[Johnson County, Tennessee|Johnson]], [[Lauderdale County, Tennessee|Lauderdale]], [[Lincoln County, Tennessee|Lincoln]], [[Madison County, Tennessee|Madison]], [[McMinn County, Tennessee|McMinn]], [[Meigs County, Tennessee|Meigs]], [[Monroe County, Tennessee|Monroe]], [[Smith County, Tennessee|Smith]], [[Stewart County, Tennessee|Stewart]], [[Tipton County, Tennessee|Tipton]], and [[Weakley County, Tennessee|Weakley]]. A useful substitute for counties where marriages were not officially recorded, or where courthouses burned is: | The following counties, though many had been in existence for more than a decade, did not begin registering marriages until that time: [[Anderson County, Tennessee|Anderson]], [[Benton County, Tennessee|Benton]], [[Campbell County, Tennessee|Campbell]], [[Cannon County, Tennessee|Cannon]], [[Carroll County, Tennessee|Carroll]], [[Claiborne County, Tennessee|Claiborne]], [[Fayette County, Tennessee|Fayette]], [[Franklin County, Tennessee|Franklin]], [[Henry County, Tennessee|Henry]], [[Johnson County, Tennessee|Johnson]], [[Lauderdale County, Tennessee|Lauderdale]], [[Lincoln County, Tennessee|Lincoln]], [[Madison County, Tennessee|Madison]], [[McMinn County, Tennessee|McMinn]], [[Meigs County, Tennessee|Meigs]], [[Monroe County, Tennessee|Monroe]], [[Smith County, Tennessee|Smith]], [[Stewart County, Tennessee|Stewart]], [[Tipton County, Tennessee|Tipton]], and [[Weakley County, Tennessee|Weakley]]. A useful substitute for counties where marriages were not officially recorded, or where courthouses burned is: | ||