Site Search

This search engine is provided for the purpose of aiding your exploration of the Tennessee Records Repository. With a few key strokes and the click of a mouse, you can search our entire site for the information you are looking for. Just use the drop down menus to select the area of your search, enter one or more words describing what you are looking for click on the Search button. Enjoy!

You can search the entire Tennessee Records Repository or select just the county of interest.

By default the search engine tries to locate pages which have exact matches for all of the words entered in your search query. If that fails, it then tries to locate pages which contain any words in your search query. If that happens a short message is displayed at the top of the search results indicating this has been done.

In addition, there are several ways to modify the default search behavior.

1. + and - qualifiers
   If you prepend a word with + that word is required to be on the page.
   If you prepend a word with - that word is required to not be on the page.
   Example: +always -never
2. * wildcard
   If a query word ends with a * all words on a page which start the same way as that query word will match.
   Example: gift*
3. ? wildcard
   If a query word contains a ? any character will match that position.
   Example: b?g

All of these techniques can be combined: +alway* -ne??r*