Special Projects

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African American History

• People of Color in the Old South (Coordinator: Sandra Johnson)

Beyond Death Dates

•  Sickness and Death in the Old South (Coordinator: Tom Kunesh)
•  DNA Projects Links

Biographical Profiles

• Who’s Who In Tennessee - biographies from 1911
  

Get Help

• A Beginner’s Guide to U.S. Federal Censuses -  A Census Tutorial. (Coordinator: Nancy Cole)

General Records & Reports

• Goodspeed’s County Histories

Law & Justice

• Tennessee Law, the Early Days

Native American History

• First People of Tennessee and the American Southeast  
• Cherokee By Blood

Tennessee Before Statehood

• East Tennessee Pre-1796
• Middle Tennessee Pre-1796 (Coordinator: Nancy Cole)

Tennessee Land History

• The Land of Our Ancestors
• Indian Land Cessions in the American Southeast (Coordinators: Bill Oliver)
• The Intruders
• Maps Our Ancestors Followed (see TN Maps) — (Coordinator: Charles A. Reeves)

Tennessee Military History

• Tennesseans in the Revolutionary War
• Tennesseans in the War of 1812
• Tennessee and the Civil War
• Tennesseans in World War I

The Tennesseans

• Letters From Forgotten Ancestors
• State Hospitals, Poor Houses, &c
• Table Of Our Ancestors (Recipes)
• Tennessee Courthouse Photographs
• Tennessee Valley Authority (Coordinator: Suzanne M. Pratt)