{"id":39,"date":"2024-04-02T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/geography-and-topography\/vital-records\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:25:00","slug":"vital-records","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/geography-and-topography\/vital-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Vital Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage records have always been required in Tennessee.&nbsp; Early divorces were granted by the General Assembly (legislature) rather than a court.<\/p>\n<p>The State of Tennessee did not require regular recording of births and deaths before 1908.&nbsp; Large cities have earlier records by local mandate.&nbsp; Although birth and death records became required statewide in 1914, local recording was inconsistent &#8212; especially in rural areas &#8212; until the mid-1920&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives maintains a detailed description of available records and their access.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/sos.tn.gov\/tsla\/guides\/vital-records-at-the-library-and-archives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view<\/a> the TSLA site for vital records.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Be sure to click the links for related sub-categories on the menu at the top of this page.<\/p>\n<p>Articles are listed in descending order from most-recently published. Dates indicate the last modification to an article.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/index-to-nashville-birth-records-1881-1913-c-d\/\">Index to Nashville Birth Records 1881-1913 C-D<\/a> April 23, 2024<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/index-to-nashville-birth-records-1881-1913-mc\/\">Index to Nashville Birth Records 1881-1913 Mc<\/a> April 23, 2024<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/index-to-nashville-birth-records-1881-1913-l\/\">Index to Nashville Birth Records 1881-1913  L<\/a> April 23, 2024<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/index-to-nashville-birth-records-1881-1913-i-k\/\">Index to Nashville Birth Records 1881-1913  I-K<\/a> April 9, 2024<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/index-to-nashville-birth-records-1881-1913-e-h\/\">Index to Nashville Birth Records 1881-1913  E-H<\/a> April 9, 2024<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/index-to-nashville-birth-records-1881-1913-a-b\/\">Index to Nashville Birth Records 1881-1913  A-B<\/a> April 9, 2024<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage records have always been required in Tennessee.&nbsp; Early divorces were granted by the General Assembly (legislature) rather than a court. The State of Tennessee did not require regular recording of births and deaths before 1908.&nbsp; Large cities have earlier <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/geography-and-topography\/vital-records\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}