Polk County, Tennessee Genealogy: Difference between revisions

Polk 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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[[Image:{{TNPolkcourthouse}}]]'''Polk County Courthouse<br>'''6239 Highway 411<br>Benton, TN 37307<br>Phone: 1-423-338-4522  

[http://www.polkgovernment.com/register-of-deeds '''Polk County Register of Deeds''']'''<br>'''Land records<br>P.O. Box 293<br>6239 Hwy 411<br>Benton, TN 37307<br>Phone: 1-423-338-3100  

[http://www.polkgovernment.com/clerks-of-court '''Polk County Clerk of Court''']'''<br>'''Court records<br>P.O. Box 256<br>6239 Highway 411<br>Benton, TN 37307<br>Phone: 1-423-338-4524  

== History  ==

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

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==== Cemeteries  ====

{{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.

*[http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=12621&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down&sec=0&qty=59&stateAbbv=&stateName= ePodunk&nbsp;list of&nbsp;Polk County cemeteries]

*Inscriptions of Polk County, Tennessee Cemeteries. [http://www.tngenweb.org/polk/polk2.htm#Volunteers Free Lookups Available!]

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

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==== Church  ====

Church records include baptisms, marriages and burials, as well as information about family members and clues about family migration.&nbsp; For additional information about church records, religions, and religious archives&nbsp;in Tennessee, see [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Tennessee_Church_Records Tennessee Church Records].  

*If the records you need are not&nbsp;through the Family History Library, contact the church(es) in the area where your ancestor lived.&nbsp; Two sites that give information about churches in&nbsp;Polk County are:

:- [http://tennessee.hometownlocator.com/features/cultural,class,church,scfips,47003.cfm List of&nbsp;Polk County churches] (TN HomeTownLocator)

*'''[1879-1900]''' Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. ''Vital Statistics from 19th Century Tennessee Church Records.'' Nashville: Sitler and Associates, 1979. {{FHL|976.8 K29s}} vol.1&nbsp;&nbsp; Index to original Old Friendship Baptist Church Records. Polk County, 1879-1943.

'''General'''  

*''The&nbsp;Heritage of Polk County, Tennessee, 1839-1997''. Benton, Tenn.: Polk County Historical and Genealogical Society (Tennessee), 1997. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=718948 FHL&nbsp;US/CAN&nbsp;Book 976.8875 H2h].

Tap into the minds of local experts. Editors of genealogical periodicals publish unique sources that researchers who are new to their area would not likely discover. This type of material may be found in local, regional, or statewide genealogical society journals. The following periodicals cover this county:  

:'''Ansearchin' News'''  

:Genealogical articles with abstracts of records of Polk County, Tennessee have been published in ''Ansearchin' News'', the quarterly magazine of the [http://www.tngs.org/ Tennessee Genealogical Society]. To view a list of these articles, visit their [http://www.tngs.org/ansearchin/ByCounty_ndx.html county index]. To read digitized versions of the first 36 years of articles (Vols. 1-36), browse their [http://www.tngs.org/ansearchin/index.html archive]&nbsp;or conduct a [http://www.tngs.org/search.htm surname search]. The Family History Library has a complete collection of the ''Ansearchin' News'' quarterly [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=44514 FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 B2a.]  

*'''[1894-1970]''' Poteet-Pitts, Jennie Vee. ''Polk County, Tennessee Marriages 1894 through 1970''. Louisville, Tenn.: V.H. Jones, 1995. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=742375 FHL&nbsp;US/CAN&nbsp;Book 976.8875 V28p]. [http://www.tngenweb.org/polk/polk2.htm#Volunteers Free Lookups Available!] [Abstracts names of brides, grooms, and officiators, along with marriage dates for early marriages; greater detail for more recent marriages, including volume and page numbers.]

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

== Societies and Libraries  ==

[http://www.tngenweb.org/polk/pchgs/index.html '''Polk County Historical &amp; Genealogical Society''']<br>P. O. Box 636<br>Benton, TN 37307  

[http://www.wrlibrary.org/Libraries/unpage.html '''East Tennessee Historical Society''']<br>601 S. Gay St.<br>P.O. Box 1629<br>Knoxville, Tennessee 37901-1629<br>Phone: 1-865-215-8824<br>E-mail: eths@east-tennessee-history.org  

== Web Sites  ==

*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitydetails&subject=195071&subject_disp=Tennessee%2C+Polk&columns=*,0,0 Family History Library Catalog] (FamilySearch)  

*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnpolk2/ Polk County, Tennessee: "A Hidden Treasure"] (American Local History Network &amp; Tennessee Local History Network) '''Resources '''that will help you place your ancestors within the context of their local history.  

*[http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.tennessee.counties.polk/mb.ashx Polk County, TN Family History and Genealogy Message Board] (Ancestry)