Businesses
- Sullivan county area advertisements – from historical newspapers
Cemeteries
- Sullivan County Cemeteries
- Sullivan County cemeteries at the TNGenWeb Cemetery Database
- Map of Sullivan County cemeteries – see local cemeteries on a Google map
- Ashes to Ashes: Cremations and other non-burials
- Scott County, VA Cemetery Records
- Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee on Facebook
- Sullivan County cemeteries from the US Geological Survey/Geographic Names Information System.
Census
- 1830 Sullivan County surname index
- 1840 Sullivan County surname index
- 1850 Sullivan County census
- 1860 Sullivan County census
- 1870 Sullivan County census
- 1870 US Census – free search online via FamilySearch; images included
- 1880 Sullivan County census
- 1880 US Census – free search online via FamilySearch; index only – no images
- 1900 US Census – free search online via FamilySearch; images included
- 1910 US Census – free search online via FamilySearch; index only – no images
- 1920 US Census – free search online via FamilySearch; index only – no images
- 1930 US Census – free search online via FamilySearch; index only – no images
- 1940 US Census – free search online via FamilySearch
Churches (links to ChurchAngel)
City Websites
Crimes
Deaths
- Sullivan County Obituaries – miscellaneous obits submitted to this site
- Sullivan County Obituaries Index – obits submitted to the USGenWeb Archives; covers approx. 2001-2005
- Sullivan County Obituaries from the Bristol Herald Courier, the Kingsport Times News and other area newspapers and funeral homes, 1998-2013
- Bristol Herald-Courier – view current obituaries from this newspaper
- Kingsport Times News – view current obituaries from this newspaper
- Tennessee Death Certificates, 1914-1955 – free images from FamilySearch; requires free registration
Education / Schools
- Hicks’ School History
- Research project on one-room school houses in East Tennessee
- Schools of Sullivan County
Events
- Click HERE for photos of historical events and activities in Sullivan County
Families
- Websites concerning Sullivan County families
- “Enterprise 1940: A Sullivan County Community” by Gene Morrell
- Biographical Sketches of Sullivan County families from Goodspeed Publishing Company (1887)(surnames A-H) (surnames J-T)
- Sullivan County families on “Who’s Who in TN” at TNGenWeb
History
- Some History of Sullivan County
- Historic Markers of Sullivan County
- Sullivan County Archives at USGenWeb
- Archives of the City of Kingsport
- Goodspeed’s History of Sullivan County and Biographical Sketches at TNGenWeb
- Bristol 150 (website about Bristol’s sesquicentennial in 2006)
- “Shelby’s Fort and Squabble State” at TNGenWeb
- Native American History
- 75th Anniversary of the Tri-Cities Airport
- “Mountain Memories” – historical articles submitted to the Sullivan County News by Gene Morrell
- Vintage Postcards of Sullivan County: Bristol
- Vintage Postcards of Sullivan County: Kingsport
- Vintage Postcards of Sullivan County: Miscellaneous cards
- Photos of Bristol and Sullivan County
Land
Marriages
- Sullivan County Marriages extracted from newspapers – misc. listings
- Sullivan County Marriages – a partial transcription of marriage records, mostly between 1866 and 1929.
Military
- Battle of Blountville Reenactment & Military Park
- Soldiers during the Cherokee Removal (1837 Trail of Tears)
- Mexican War – 5th Regiment Sullivan County Volunteers
- Civil War
- Pension Records
- Tennesseans in the Revolutionary War
Newspapers
- Sullivan County news articles – misc. articles extracted from newspapers; dates vary
- 1868-1878 Bristol County News – full issues of the newspaper available online
- Kingsport Times-News Online
- The Bristol Herald-Courier Online
Societies, Libraries & Museums
- Bristol Historical Association
- Bristol Public Library
- East Tennessee Historical Society – website | facebook | twitter
- E.W. King Library at King College
- Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia (has some Sullivan County information)
- Kingsport Public Library
- Sherrod Library at ETSU
- Sullivan County Department of Archives & Tourism
- Sullivan County Public Library
- Tennessee Genealogical Society
- Tennessee Genealogical Society AmSearchin Tool
- Tennessee State Library & Archives
Surnames
- Site Surname Index – a list of surnames found on the site; not exhaustive but may be helpful
Wills