{"id":35,"date":"2023-07-26T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2023-07-26T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:18:00","slug":"vital-records","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/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\/montgomery\/tennessee-birth-death-records\/\">Tennessee Birth &#038; Death Records<\/a> July 26, 2023<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/tennessee-record-collections-at-familysearch\/\">Tennessee Record Collections at FamilySearch<\/a> July 26, 2023<\/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\/montgomery\/vital-records\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/montgomery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}