Tennessee Vital Records: Difference between revisions

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== Introduction to Vital Records  ==

[[United States Vital Records|Vital Records]] consist of [[United States Birth Records|births]], adoptions, [[United States Marriage Records|marriages]], divorces, and [[United States Death Records|deaths]] recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. [[Locating United States Vital Records|United States Vital Records]] has additional research guidance on researching and using vital records. A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the [http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w/Tennessee.htm Tennessee Vital Records State Department of Health] or the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred. See also [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/frameset_rg.asp?Dest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=&Sid=&Did=&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=&Sub=&Tab=&Entry=&Guide=TN_BMDT3_Statewide_Indexes.ASP#Step Tennessee Statewide Indexes and Collections] at the Family History Library.  

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Tennessee's civil records start the following years:  

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Chattanooga from 1879 FHL has 1911-1915 {{FHL|1303215}}

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Knoxville from 1881 {{FHL|1276584}}

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[http://register.shelby.tn.us/ Memphis from 1874]

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Nashville from 1881 {{FHL|1276576}}

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The Family History Library has microfilm copies of most of the existing county marriage records from the&nbsp;county organization&nbsp;date to the early 1900's.&nbsp; Access these records through the FHL catalog ''Tennessee&gt;County Name. ''&nbsp;Many early Tennessee marriages to about 1890 are extracted and found in the ''International Genealogical Index.''&nbsp; 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]''.  

: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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Four cities collected death information and&nbsp;maintained these records on the city level.&nbsp; These records are available at the [http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/mailstat.htm#Deaths Tennessee State Library and Archives].&nbsp;The Family History Library collection also includes these records.&nbsp;  

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Chattanooga from 1872 {{FHL|1303220}}

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Knoxville from 1881 {{FHL|1276602}}

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[http://register.shelby.tn.us/ Memphis from 1848] {{FHL|1465227}}

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Nashville from 1881 {{FHL|1303216}}

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