{"id":2903,"date":"2012-12-05T18:42:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T23:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington2\/?page_id=2903"},"modified":"2015-07-29T18:44:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T22:44:42","slug":"our-friends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/washington\/links-2\/our-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;color: #0000ff\">State Resources<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/law\/\">Early Tennessee Laws<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; traces the progression of Tennessee laws<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.easttnhistory.org\/\">East Tennessee Historical Society\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; East Tennessee History Center, Museum and McClung Library<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~tncjones\/\">Historical Jonesborough<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; website for the oldest town in Tennessee<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a title=\"Johnson's Depot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnsonsdepot.com\/\">Johnson&#8217;s Depot\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; \u00a0website dedicated to the past, present and future residents of Johnson City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tn.gov\/sos\/bluebook\/\">Tennessee Blue Book Online<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0about state government, \u00a0history, \u00a0and state constitution<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessee.gov\/tsla\/history\/misc\/historians.htm\">Tennessee County Historians<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; name and address for each county historian<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessee.gov\/tsla\/history\/vital\/death.htm\">Tennessee Death Records, partial list<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; partial index from 1914\u20131925 death records<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessee.gov\/tsla\/\">\u00a0Tennessee State Library and Archives<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0collects and preserves books and records of historical, documentary and reference value<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/health.state.tn.us\/vr\/index.htm\">Tennessee Vital Records<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The office reviews, registers, amends, issues and maintains the original certificates of Tennessee births, deaths, marriages and divorces<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: large\">Geographical Locators<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=1895+Atlas+of+U.S\">1895 Atlas of the U.S.<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; public domain Rand McNally US atlas of 1895<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google Maps<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; web mapping service provided by Google<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/\">MapQuest<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; AOL &#8216;s free online mapping service<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdot.state.tn.us\/Maps\/county\/default.htm\">Tennessee County Maps<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; official Tennessee Dept. of Transportation maps<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/pubprod\/\">USGS Mapping Information<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; US Geological Survey Maps, Imagery and Publications<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: large\">USGenWeb Resources<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/usgwarchives.net\/\">USGenWeb Archives<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; transcriptions of public domain US records<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/usgenweb.org\/projects\/index.shtml\">USGenWeb Project<\/a>s\u00a0&#8211; projects for the genealogist that go beyond county and state lines<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: large\">Families Online<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sd2cx1.webring.org\/l\/rd?ring=rootswebmaillist;id=49;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhomepages%2Erootsweb%2Eancestry%2Ecom%2F%7Egeorge%2Fbroyles%2Dgermanna%2Ehtml\">Broyles\/Briles Web page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: large\">RootsWeb Resources<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/\">Mailing Lists Hosted by RootsWeb<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Over 30,000 genealogical mailing lists<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/ps_ssdi?o_ps=ssdi&amp;o_xid=21837&amp;o_lid=21837&amp;o_sch=Search\">Social Security Death Index<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/cgi-bin\/soundexconverter\">\u00a0&#8211; access to free SSDI records<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Soundex Conversion Program\u00a0&#8211; converts surnames to Soundex code<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/surhelp.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/srchall.html\">Surname List Name Finder<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; surname engine for queries and registered surnames<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~websites\/\">Websites at RootsWeb<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; websites for the genealogy community<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~websites\/\">World Connect Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: large\">Other Valuable Resources<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/history\/www\/faqs\/genealogy_faqs\/what_questions_were_asked_during_each_census.html\">Census Questionnaires<\/a> &#8211; questions asked during each census<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/civilwar\/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm\">Civil War Soldiers and Sailors<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 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