{"id":980,"date":"2023-05-20T18:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T23:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lawrence\/?p=980"},"modified":"2023-05-20T18:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T23:43:54","slug":"lc-archives-holdings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lawrence\/lc-archives-holdings\/","title":{"rendered":"LC Archives Holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The information above was copied from the Web site named Lawrence County Genealogical Society.&nbsp; The site was maintained by Kathy Niedergeses, but she has retired.&nbsp; We are unsure of the site&#8217;s future.&nbsp; Original Lawrence County TNGenWeb Coordinator Reita Jones Burress posted shared content with the LCGS site over the course of 27 years.&nbsp; Therefore, we decided to incorporate the content here.&nbsp; No copyright infringement is intended by providing this information for the benefit of researchers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Source URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.lorettotel.net\/~lcarchives\/archivehold.htm\">http:\/\/home.lorettotel.net\/~lcarchives\/archivehold.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><center><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Lawrence County, Tennessee<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">Archives Holdings<\/span><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Loose Records Collection<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The loose records collection consists of all the original loose documents before they were recorded in large volumes.&nbsp; These records were located at the courthouse until 1988 when they were transferred to the Lawrence County Archives.&nbsp; The archives staff sorted and cleaned the records that cover the time period 1818-1909 for both county and chancery court.&nbsp; Indexes were created through 1899, and the indexing of the 1900-1909 time period is in the process. All these records are available for the general public to use for research purposes.<\/p>\n<p>This first listing is for loose records only. Most of the loose records only go through the 1950s, except for marriages, divorces and a few other records. However, you can see a listing of the records we have through 1997 on <a href=\"http:\/\/home.lorettotel.net\/~lcarchives\/archmicrofilm.htm\">microfilm<\/a>. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<ul>\n<li>Apprentice Indentures: 1818-1909<\/li>\n<li>Bastardy Cases: 1818-<\/li>\n<li>County Court Petitions: 1818-1950s (only 1818-1909 completely indexed)<\/li>\n<li>Chancery Court Petitions:&nbsp; 1843-1950s (only 1843-1909 completely indexed)<\/li>\n<li>Circuit Court Records (Civil &amp; Criminal): 1800s-1989<\/li>\n<li>Deeds:&nbsp; 1820-1959 (only 1818-1909 completely indexed; also have trust deed books from)<\/li>\n<li>Divorces: 1820-1970 (all indexed)<\/li>\n<li>Estate settlements, Administrator, Guardian &amp; Executor Bonds and Settlements: 1818-1950 (only 1818-1909 completely indexed)<\/li>\n<li>Land Grants, Land Entries and Land Surveys: 1818-1929 (only 1818-1909 completely indexed)<\/li>\n<li>Marriage Records:&nbsp; 1818-2000&nbsp; (loose, book form and microfilm)<\/li>\n<li>Merchants License:&nbsp;1818-1950s (only 1818-1909 loose license indexed, but do have a book compiled by archives staff of all types of businesses&nbsp;1820s-1965; more are being indexed)<\/li>\n<li>Petitions Settling Estates and other matters (usually names heirs and where they reside): 1818-1950s (only 1818-1909 completely indexed)<\/li>\n<li>Power of Attorney:&nbsp;1818-1950s (only 1818-1909 completely indexed)<\/li>\n<li>Rebel Claims Against U.S.:&nbsp; 1865-early 1870s<\/li>\n<li>Road Overseers &amp; Road Petitions:&nbsp;1818-1920s or 1930s&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Slave Sales:&nbsp; 1818-1865<\/li>\n<li>Tax Records: 1826-2005&nbsp; (some years are missing)<\/li>\n<li>Voter Records: 1818-1909<\/li>\n<li>Widow&#8217;s Support: 1818-1909<\/li>\n<li>Wills: 1820-1959 (only 1818-1909 completely indexed)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Other Records in File Folders, Books and Microfilm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides these records and their indexes, the archives has many books on various subjects.&nbsp; Some of these are listed below.&nbsp; A complete inventory of all the books available for researchers to use while on-site can be found at this web site: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/home.lorettotel.net\/~lcarchives\/lawrbknv.htm\">http:\/\/home.lorettotel.net\/~lcarchives\/lawrbknv.htm<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/home.lorettotel.net\/~lcarchives\/archmicrofilm.htm\">Microfilm<\/a>&nbsp;is available for most records as far up as the late 1990s.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1820-1930 Federal Census (1820-1920 in microfilm and book form; printed index for head of household for 1930 and a CD containing the entire Lawrence County 1930 census).&nbsp;<b>1940 census will be available in 2012<\/b>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Family File Folders &#8211; Over 2,000&nbsp; (Access the surname list through this link&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/home.lorettotel.net\/~lcarchives\/lawrfamf.htm\">family file folder<\/a>)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Maps &#8211; Plat, Road, District, School, Railroad, etc.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Obituaries in book form: 1846-2010 (some in loose form in family files also)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Lots of Civil War Books &amp; Information in Files<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Family History Books, large collection (listing can be found in archives&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/home.lorettotel.net\/~lcarchives\/lawrbknv.htm\">book inventory for on-site<\/a>)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>County and Community History Books (listing at same link as above)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Miscellaneous File Folders containing info on many subjects &#8211; churches, communities, various types of businesses, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and many other categories. (Will compile a complete list soon.)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Church Histories (books and folders)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Cemetery Records<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Genealogical Society Quarterly Journals, Sept. 1997-current<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Historical Society Bulletins, 1953-1996 (Also bulletins for many other historical and genealogical societies in other counties and states.)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Native American &#8211; All Cherokee Rolls compiled into books, plus more<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>African-American Research &#8211; obituaries, census, marriages, slave census, human interest articles, etc.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Newspapers: 1846-1986 (some years and issues missing)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Statewide Books:&nbsp; Land Grants 1790&#8217;s-; Marriages 1790&#8217;s-1870; Census 1810-1870; Mortality Schedule 1850, 1860 &amp; 1880; Wills, Estate Settlements and Inventories 1779-1861; and a few other records.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Other Tennessee Counties that we have &#8220;some&#8221; books for census, marriages, cemetery, deed abstracts, or other record: Carroll, Carter, Cocke, Davidson, Fayette, Gibson, Giles, Greene, Hardin, Hickman, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Sevier, Wayne, and Williamson.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Heritage Books for Dickson, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Maury, Sevier, Warren and Wayne counties in Tennessee<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Goodspeed&#8217;s Histories for many counties in TN<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Alabama Counties that we have some books containing census, marriages, cemetery, etc.:&nbsp; Lauderdale, Limestone, St. Clair, and Clay.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>For Virginia Counties, we have some books containing census, marriages, cemetery, Rev. War, parish records, etc. We also have Heritage Books for Halifax and Pittsburg, Virginia.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files Vol. I, II, III &amp; IV by White<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The Papers of&nbsp;George Henry Nixon.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>We are always adding more records, so keep checking back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Updated By: Kathy Niedergeses June 6, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The information above was copied from the Web site named Lawrence County Genealogical Society.&nbsp; The site was maintained by Kathy Niedergeses, but she has retired.&nbsp; We are unsure of the site&#8217;s future.&nbsp; Original Lawrence County TNGenWeb Coordinator Reita Jones Burress posted shared content with the LCGS site over the course of 27 years.&nbsp; Therefore, we decided to incorporate the content here.&nbsp; No copyright infringement is intended by providing this information for the benefit of researchers. 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