{"id":44,"date":"2023-05-11T18:58:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T22:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/vital-records\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:33:04","slug":"vital-records","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/research-aids\/public-records\/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\/roane\/roane-county-births-deaths\/\">Roane County Births &#038; Deaths<\/a> January 6, 2026<\/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\/roane\/research-aids\/public-records\/vital-records\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/531"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}