Overton County, Tennessee Genealogy: Difference between revisions

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Overton County's civil records start the following years:<ref>''[http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-public-vital-statistics-in-tennessee/oclc Guide to Public Vital Statistics in Tennessee]''. Nashville, Tenn.: The Tennessee Historical Records Survey (W.P.A.), 1941; [http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/county/earlyrecords.htm "Earliest County Records,"] Tennessee State Library and Archives.</ref>  

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'''Overton County Circuit Court Clerk'''<br>Court records<br>317 E. University St.<br>Livinston, TN 38570<br>Phone: 1-931-823-2312  

== History  ==

[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TNOverton.ogg Hear it spoken]<ref>Voice of Gene Black, FamilySearch employee, former resident of Bristol, Tenn. (2010).</ref>  

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==== Populated Places  ====

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| Bonsack  

| Oakley  

| Unity

| Westfork (hist.)

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| Lee (hist.)  

| Pines (hist.)  

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==== African American  ====

*Waldrep, G.C. "'Free Colored' Heads of Household in the 1820 Tennessee Census," available [http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Tenn_1820.htm online], courtesy: [http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/ Free African Americans] website. [Includes free African Americans in this county.]

{{RAOGKcemetery}} Tennessee cemetery records often identify birth, death, relationship, and military information, as well as religious affiliation.  

*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs& Find A Grave] can be searched by the&nbsp;name of a person or family to find where a person is buried.&nbsp; Usually gives birth and death dates often with a picture of the tombstone.&nbsp; May&nbsp;give obituaries,&nbsp;names of&nbsp;family members and links to their information in Find A Grave.

See [[Tennessee Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book]] for more information about statewide printed indexes.  

'''1810''' - Lost, but a substitute is available:  

{{DNA}} DNA has been collected from men claiming descent from the following Overton County residents. Attempts have not been made to verify the lineages of those tested.  

*'''[Parrett]''' Descendant of James Forrester Parrett (1830-1868) of Overton County, Tennessee. Y-DNA 37 Marker Test, FTDNA (Kit 67049). Genetic signature available [http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/doss/results online] (labeled Fr-1), genealogical description available [http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/doss/pats online], courtesy: The Doss DNA Project, [http://www.worldfamilies.net/ World Families]. Matches have been found with Doss surname.

'''General'''  

*Gray, Shawn. ''Overton Co., TN Kin, Family Trees: Family Trees Compiled from 1994-1998''. 2 vols. Muncie, Ind.: S. Gray, 1998. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=820573 FHL&nbsp;US/CAN&nbsp;Book 976.8684 D2g v. 1] ff.  

The Overton County Court has responsibility for the probate records.  

*Whitley, Edythe Johns Rucker. ''Tennessee Genealogy Records: Overton County.'' Available at [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=233999 FHL US/CAN Book 976.868 D2w]; digital versions available at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48612 Ancestry] ($) and [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=gpc0806308419_edytheruckerwhitley1967 World Vital Records] ($).

Overton County is ''not'' included in Sistler's ''Early Middle Tennessee Marriages''.  

In 1940 and 1941, W.P.A. workers pinpointed the location of Overton County divorce papers in diverse County Courthouse records, see:  

[http://www.mtgs.org/ '''Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society''']<br>PO Box 330948<br>Nashville, TN, USA 37203-7507<br>The society serves the 40 counties of middle Tennessee of which Overton County is one. It publishes ''The Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy and History'', a quarterly containing articles of genealogical and historical interest. Little-known Tennessee records are published and indexed, along with family genealogies, Bible records and material submitted by members. There is an&nbsp;alphabetical Index to articles in the Journal&nbsp;1988-summer 2005  

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