New:
07/02/2009 Added transcription of the whole Smithville Cemetery, updated slave records page, replaced "books available" page with complete updated inventory of all Dekalb County genealogy books at the Justin Potter Library. The list of books for sale is now current.
New:
06/16/2009 A hacker deleted all queries. Follow the link to
"View or Post a Query" below for details and a new query system.
New:
05/26/2009 Added family Bible of David Kyle submitted by
Margaret Scott Atchley. Also added the family Bible of John F. Roy submitted by Marie
Wingate.
New:
05/24/2009 Added several Salem Cemetery grave marker photos
and transcription of them submitted by Dale Crowell and Betty (Bradley) Edwards. They
are in the "Cemetery Transcriptions" section.
Also added my own transcription of the Jefferson Rowland Cemetery.
New:
05/21/2009 Added Foutch family photos
submitted by Marie Wingate.
New:
05/09/2009 3 Roy family deeds
submitted by Marie Wingate.
New:
05/07/2009 Added Roy, Vick, and
Yeargin family photos to the "Photo" section below. Submitted by Marie
Wingate.
Also
added a page of the genealogy of the
family of William and Mary Wooldridge submitted by Evelyn Allen. It is
in the "Family Histories" section under "Genealogy Archives" below.
There is also a link between it and the family photo.
New:
05/01/2009 Added photo of the whole
family of William and Mary Wooldridge submitted by Evelyn Allen. Photo
added to the same page as the previous single "Mary Wooldridge" photo.
New:
04/30/2009 Marie Wingate sent a 1922
photo of the two teachers and all the students of Bright Hill School.
She has most of the students identified. If you can help identify the
rest, please email her. The link to the photo page is in both the photo
section and the schools section below.
New:
04/24/2009 Clint
Durham sent a photo of the teacher and students of Holmes Creek School,
1927. He can only identify the two Durhams in the photo, but somebody's
grandparents are in the photo, since it is that recent. He needs help
with identifying the rest of them. Please look at the photo to see if
you can help. The link to the photo page is in the photo section below
and also a link to the same page in the schools section below.
New: 04/23/2009
I just now looked and
found that Don Robbins
has transcribed the 1860 Dekalb County, Tennessee census for the
USGenWeb census project. The new 1860 census link is in the
census section below.
New:
04/08/2009 Added Mary Wooldridge photo
and censuses of the family on that page
New:
03/11/09 Added 2 family Bibles:
Jefferson Rowland and David James Rowland
New:
03/10/09 Added 4 wills: David
James Rowland, Eli Rowland, Jefferson Rowland, Reason S Rowland.
New:
02/24/09
Added listing of names and any known ages of slaves found in wills,
along with the testator's name and document date. Partial, more to
follow. See link in "Genealogy Archives" section below.
New:
01/21/09 Link to a new Google Book,
Whitney's "The Land
Laws of Tennessee"
New:
12/2008 Death
record search for all counties in Tennessee 1949-2005 (see below)
New:
12/2008 Robert
Lack has sent a lot of photos. He needs your help with identification
of a lot of people in these. He has already
identified many. Surnames include West,
Colwell (Caldwell),
Redmon, Walker, Foutch, Lyles, Lack, Lathan, Dunn You will find the
link to his photos below in the photo section.
New:
12/2008
Martha Eva Lena Colwell Lack Family Bible in the Bibles
section