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 [https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/vital-records.html Website]
-:* ''Certified copies'' can only be provided to the person named on the certificate or certain family members.
+{{Block indent|* ''Certified copies'' can only be provided to the person named on the certificate or certain family members.  }}
-::*[https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/health/health-program-areas/vital-records/certificate.html How Do I Order My Certificate] from Tennessee Office of Vital Records
+{{Block indent|*[https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/health/health-program-areas/vital-records/certificate.html How Do I Order My Certificate] from Tennessee Office of Vital Records|2}}
-:* ''Verification of information'' (excluding cause of death) can be provided to any requester.<ref>Tennessee Department of Health, Tennessee Office of Vital Records, "Genealogy Research," https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/vital-records/genealogy-research.html, accessed 2/8/2024.</ref><ref>University of Tennessee, County Technical Assistance Service, [https://www.ctas.tennessee.edu/eli/vital-records#_ftn2''Vital Records''], accessed 13 September 2024. "But the law goes on to state that an application for a marriage license and the authenticating documentation for the events of birth, death, marriage, divorce or annulment of a marriage, in the possession of a county clerk, court clerk, state registrar, or other authorized custodian are public records and that verified information from such documents may be provided upon request. However, the information contained in the “Information for Medical and Health Use Only” section of a birth certificate and the “Confidential Information” section of marriage, divorce, or annulment" certificates remains confidential.</ref>
+{{Block indent|* ''Verification of information'' (excluding cause of death) can be provided to any requester.<ref>Tennessee Department of Health, Tennessee Office of Vital Records, "Genealogy Research," https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/vital-records/genealogy-research.html, accessed 2/8/2024.</ref><ref>University of Tennessee, County Technical Assistance Service, [https://www.ctas.tennessee.edu/eli/vital-records#_ftn2''Vital Records''], accessed 13 September 2024. "But the law goes on to state that an application for a marriage license and the authenticating documentation for the events of birth, death, marriage, divorce or annulment of a marriage, in the possession of a county clerk, court clerk, state registrar, or other authorized custodian are public records and that verified information from such documents may be provided upon request. However, the information contained in the “Information for Medical and Health Use Only” section of a birth certificate and the “Confidential Information” section of marriage, divorce, or annulment" certificates remains confidential.</ref>}}
-::*Forms: [https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/vital-records/PH-3061-Application-For-Verification-of-Birth-Facts.pdf Birth]; [https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/vital-records/PH-3055-Application-For-Verification-of-Death-Facts.pdf Death]; [https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/vital-records/PH-3331-Application-for-Verification-of-Marriage-Facts.pdf Marriage]
+{{Block indent|*Forms: [https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/vital-records/PH-3061-Application-For-Verification-of-Birth-Facts.pdf Birth]; [https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/vital-records/PH-3055-Application-For-Verification-of-Death-Facts.pdf Death]; [https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/vital-records/PH-3331-Application-for-Verification-of-Marriage-Facts.pdf Marriage]|2}}
 '''Tennessee State Library & Archives (TSLA)'''<br>
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 [https://sos.tn.gov/tsla Website]<br>
-:* They have birth records (including delayed births) after 100 years and death and marriage records after 50 years.
+{{Block indent|* They have birth records (including delayed births) after 100 years and death and marriage records after 50 years.}}
-:*[https://sos.tn.gov/tsla/services/order-records-from-tsla#birth Order Records From TSLA]
+{{Block indent|*[https://sos.tn.gov/tsla/services/order-records-from-tsla#birth Order Records From TSLA]}}
-:*[https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/ Tennessee Virtual Archive (TEVA)]<br>
+{{Block indent|*[https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/ Tennessee Virtual Archive (TEVA)]<br>}}
-::*Online ''digital'' copies of [https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/collections/birth/birth.html birth], [https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/collections/death/death.html death], and [https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/collections/marriage/marriage.html marriage] records released to the public.
+{{Block indent|*Online ''digital'' copies of [https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/collections/birth/birth.html birth], [https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/collections/death/death.html death], and [https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/collections/marriage/marriage.html marriage] records released to the public. |2}}
-:::*Click the number  <ref>Search suggestions for Tennessee Virtual Archives: Search the name indexes year by year. Find a record you want and note the certificate #. Then search NOT BY Name, but by year and '''certificate #''' to view the record. [Add zeros if less than 6 numbers].  example: 73-039280)  (Personal experience 8/31/2024)</ref>  for search suggestions.
+{{Block indent|*Click the number  <ref>Search suggestions for Tennessee Virtual Archives: Search the name indexes year by year. Find a record you want and note the certificate #. Then search NOT BY Name, but by year and '''certificate #''' to view the record. [Add zeros if less than 6 numbers].  example: 73-039280)  (Personal experience 8/31/2024)</ref>  for search suggestions. |3}}
-::*They also provide open access to thousands of photographs, documents, maps, postcards, film, audio and other records relating to the history and culture of Tennessee.
+{{Block indent|*They also provide open access to thousands of photographs, documents, maps, postcards, film, audio and other records relating to the history and culture of Tennessee.|2}}
 '''County Courthouses'''<br>
-:* Marriage Book. "The county clerk is required to record in a well-bound book.... in 1838"<ref>University of Tennessee, County Technical Assistance Service, "Marriage Records," https://www.ctas.tennessee.edu/node/395/printable/print, accessed 8/27/2024. "The county clerk is required to record in a well-bound book the names of the parties and the date of the issuance of the marriage license, and to copy immediately under or opposite thereto the return of the proper officiant who solemnized the rite of matrimony and the date thereof. T.C.A. § 18-6-109".</ref>
+{{Block indent|* Marriage Book. "The county clerk is required to record in a well-bound book.... in 1838"<ref>University of Tennessee, County Technical Assistance Service, "Marriage Records," https://www.ctas.tennessee.edu/node/395/printable/print, accessed 8/27/2024. "The county clerk is required to record in a well-bound book the names of the parties and the date of the issuance of the marriage license, and to copy immediately under or opposite thereto the return of the proper officiant who solemnized the rite of matrimony and the date thereof. T.C.A. § 18-6-109".</ref> }}
-:* Counties use TEVA (above) to print copies of birth and death records released to the public.<ref>Information from Claiborne County clerk (423) 626-3283, 7/2/2024; and Hickman County Health Department, (931) 729-3516, 8/6/2024</ref>
+{{Block indent|* Counties use TEVA (above) to print copies of birth and death records released to the public.<ref>Information from Claiborne County clerk (423) 626-3283, 7/2/2024; and Hickman County Health Department, (931) 729-3516, 8/6/2024</ref>}}
-::* Births and Deaths are forwarded to the State and not retained in registration districts.<ref>Historical Records Survey (Tennessee), ''Guide to Public Vital Statistics in Tennessee,'' (Nashville: The Tennessee State Planning Commission, 1941), 35. '''''Online at:''''' {{FSDL|110760}}; "Death Records," pp. 35-58 (images 43-66 of 166).</ref>
+{{Block indent|* Births and Deaths are forwarded to the State and not retained in registration districts.<ref>Historical Records Survey (Tennessee), ''Guide to Public Vital Statistics in Tennessee,'' (Nashville: The Tennessee State Planning Commission, 1941), 35. '''''Online at:''''' {{FSDL|110760}}; "Death Records," pp. 35-58 (images 43-66 of 166).</ref>|2}}
-:* [https://www.ctas.tennessee.edu/county-clerks County Clerks Contact information] at University of Tennessee, County Technical Assistance Service.
+{{Block indent|* [https://www.ctas.tennessee.edu/county-clerks County Clerks Contact information] at University of Tennessee, County Technical Assistance Service.}}
 == Coverage and Compliance ==
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 *Several counties<ref>FamilySearch Research Wiki, [[How to Find Tennessee Marriage Records#Finding Tennessee Marriage Records|How to Find Tennessee Marriage Records, ''Finding Tennessee Marriage Records'']], accessed 13 September 2024. Counties that did not retain marriage records until 1838 are:
 [[Anderson County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Anderson]], [[Benton County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Benton]], [[Campbell County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Campbell]], [[Cannon County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Cannon]], [[Carroll County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Carroll]], [[Claiborne County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Claiborne]], [[Fayette County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Fayette]], [[Franklin County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Franklin]], [[Henry County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Henry]], [[Johnson County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Johnson]], [[Lauderdale County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Lauderdale]], [[Lincoln County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Lincoln]], [[Madison County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Madison]], [[McMinn County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|McMinn]], [[Meigs County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Meigs]], [[Monroe County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Monroe]], [[Smith County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Smith]], [[Stewart County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Stewart]], [[Tipton County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Tipton]], and [[Weakley County, Tennessee#Vital_Records|Weakley]]</ref> did not retain even licenses and returns until mandated by law in 1838.<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." {{FSC|237705|item|disp=FS Catalog book 976.891 V2s}}; "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>
-:*Some of the records found in the 1930's by the the W.P.A. had gone missing when trying to compile indexes several decades later.<ref>Per Edythe Rucker Whitley after publishing several marriage record indexes for Tennessee in the early 1980's.</Ref>
+{{Block indent|*Some of the records found in the 1930's by the the W.P.A. had gone missing when trying to compile indexes several decades later.<ref>Per Edythe Rucker Whitley after publishing several marriage record indexes for Tennessee in the early 1980's.</Ref>}}
 *Beginning in 1945, Tennessee required registration of marriages with the state. Since 1 January 1949, duplicates have been sent to the [http://health.state.tn.us/vr/ Office of Vital Statistics].
 *Couples may have married in neighboring counties or eloped.
-:*'''[[Gretna Greens in the United States|Gretna Greens]].''' When a Tennessee couple's marriage is not in their home county, search for it in alternate places like [[Roane County, Tennessee|Fort Southwest Point TN]] for frontier couples, or [[Floyd County, Georgia|Rome GA]], or [[Surry County, North Carolina|Mount Airy NC]], or [[Pike County, Kentucky]].<ref>Arlene H. Eakle, "Have you searched and searched for a marriage without finding it?" ''Genealogy Blog,'' https://www.arleneeakle.com/wordpress/2007/02/19/have-you-searched-and-searched-for-the-marriage-without-finding-it/ accessed 13 September 2024.</ref>
+{{Block indent|*'''[[Gretna Greens in the United States|Gretna Greens]].''' When a Tennessee couple's marriage is not in their home county, search for it in alternate places like [[Roane County, Tennessee|Fort Southwest Point TN]] for frontier couples, or [[Floyd County, Georgia|Rome GA]], or [[Surry County, North Carolina|Mount Airy NC]], or [[Pike County, Kentucky]].<ref>Arlene H. Eakle, "Have you searched and searched for a marriage without finding it?" ''Genealogy Blog,'' https://www.arleneeakle.com/wordpress/2007/02/19/have-you-searched-and-searched-for-the-marriage-without-finding-it/ accessed 13 September 2024.</ref>}}
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