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Category: Searchable Databases

FamilySearch Memories: User-Submitted Photos, Audio Files, and Documents

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On January 11, 2022

In Individuals & Families, Off-Site Links, Photo Albums, Research Repositories & Contacts, Searchable Databases

FamilySearch Memories is a crowd-sourced compilation of photos, audio recordings, stories, and documents attached to persons in the FamilySearch communal tree.

Click here to visit FamilySearch Memories.

Click here for detailed instructions for locating items in the Memories section.

Searching for Bledsoe Tennessee (without quotation marks) returns the maximum of 10,000 hits. Many of those results are connected to individuals with the surname Bledsoe, rather than the location.

Note: Misspellings and other errors in item titles are not corrected or conformed as they are in the FamilySearch Tree.

We recommend you review the search tips below and consider creative searching.

What is searched?

  • The Find feature searches for words contained in a title or description of a memory or album.
  • The Find feature also searches for words contained in the first 250 characters of a story. Currently the entire text of the story is not included in the search.

The following will not display in a text search result:

  • Memories with no person tags
  • Memories with only unlinked person tags
  • Memories linked to living people in the Family Tree

Searching Topic Tags

  • The Find feature in Memories separately searches for topic tags, which are user-contributed words or phrases applied as tags to individual memories.

Tennessee Electronic Library Resources

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On January 10, 2022

In Research Repositories & Contacts, Searchable Databases

If you are a Tennessee resident, you can access many resources on-line through the Tennessee Electronic Library.  Some of these resources require individual subscriptions, but access is free for Tennessee residents.

Click here to visit the TEL site for genealogy research.

Sample resources

The Tennessean (1812 – 2002)

Digitized pages of The Tennessean (1812-2002) provide unique historical insight into the regional issues and concerns, such as local government, industrialization, prohibition, and racial struggles. Audience: Middle School, High School, College/Research, Public, Genealogy

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Search America’s historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present including 125 newspapers from Tennessee. Audience: Public, Genealogy

Digital Library of Tennessee

The Digital Library of Tennessee provides free access to unique materials from museums, libraries, and archives across the state. Audience: Public, Genealogy

Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. Audience: Public, Genealogy

HeritageQuest Online

Collection of genealogical and historical sources, with coverage dating back to the 1700s. Search U.S. census records, full-text family and local history books, Freedman’s Bank records and more. Audience: High School, College/Research, Public, Genealogy

Tennessee Records on Ancestry.com

Tennessee records, including birth, death, and tax lists are available online thru a partnership with Ancestry.com. While other Ancestry.com resources require a subscription; these records are free for Tennesseans. Audience: High School, College/Research, Public, Genealogy

Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA)

Digital repository of Tennessee history and culture featuring historical records, photographs, documents, maps, postcards, film, audio and other original materials of enduring value. Audience: Public, Genealogy

 

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