Research Room

Marshall County TNGenWeb

This research section is provided for your ongoing research into your families. I have tried to provide all known resources, and have had some help from some veteran researchers, (Thanks Dick!). Some of the sources will require you to pay for documents, look ups, research, etc. I do not promote any pay for service, however, you may use at your own discretion. From time to time, we get fellow researchers who have obtained documents from microfilm, or obtain books that they are able to look up things for us, and those people are added as they come in. If you obtain records that you would like to voluntarily donate to the site, let me know and I will get them up here. If you own Marshall County research books and would like to volunteer to look up for researchers, please also let me know. If you would like to be a regular transcriber for this site, let me know that too, and I will get you hooked up!

Happy Treeing!

Paulette

Marshall County Court-Clerk
207 Marshall County Courthouse
Lewisburg, TN 37901
931-359-1072

Marshall County Registrar of Deeds
1103 Courthouse Annex
Lewisburg, TN 37901
931-359-4933

Marshall County Memorial Library
310 Farmington Road
Lewisburg, TN 37091
931-359-3335

The library has a History/genealogy room.

Marshall County Historical Society
PO Box 1352
Lewisburg, TN 37901-0352

Link to the Master Index for the Historical Quarterlies

All memberships in the Society are due on the first Sunday in May of each year, dues are $10. The society has back issues of the Marshall County Historical Quarterly for sale. They are available for the years August 1970 through the present, with the exception of a gap in May 2000-May 2001. You may obtain back issues by sending $3.00 +$1.00 shipping for each quarterly to:
Marshall County Historical Society (make checks to this)
C/o Don Jeter, President
PO Box 1352
Lewisburg, TN 37901-0352

Regular meetings are scheduled:
2pm 1st Sundays May, Aug, Nov, Feb
Marshall County Historical Museum (auditorium of the old Hardison School)
230 College Street
Lewisburg, TN 37901
All public and members are welcome to attend.

Marshall County Historical Museum (located in the old auditorium of the old Hardison School, suite 135)
230 College Street
Lewisburg, TN 37901
931-270-0010

The museum is open on Tuesday and Friday mornings 10 am-2pm.
If you are planning on being in Marshall County a different time, and would like for the museum curators to set up a time to let you in, please try to notify by mail several days ahead of time, or call the museum during the times listed above.

Family History Centers/Libraries

Use this link to find one near you. There are all kind of different records holdings that you may be able to get a hold of for Marshall Co.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp

Tennessee State Library Resources

http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/r&r/mfcounty.htm This is to find out what Marshall County has!

http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/ill-list.htm This is what is available on interlibrary loan. You can also check their 'book' loaning as well...if they have more than one copy, you can borrow through your local library.

Chancery Court Minutes: available from 1840 on

Marriages, probate, deeds, circuit and county court minutes from 1836 on.

There were fires in 1872 and 1927 in Marshall Co. Some records for those periods could have been lost.

Census Records available at TSLA

Tennessee

1810*, 1820*, 1830*, 1840*, 1850*, 1860*, 1870*, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920
(1810 Granger & Rutherford only)
Soundex for 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920
1890 Veterans

This link will take you to all the TSLA holdings, for newspapers etc.

http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/intro.htm#county_records

Marshall County Historical Society published Marshall County, Tennessee: A Sesquicentennial History in 1986. I am told it is the best guide for our research. You can contact the society at the address above for information.

Links for Wars

Revolutionary War:

Civil War: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

Other Resources:

Images of the actual text from the 1791-1799 and 1845 Statistical Accounts
of Scotland are available on-line here: http://edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/

New Map Resource: http://www.genealogyatlas.com

Professional Researcher

TN Death Index 1908-1912 Online

Daily Obituary Times

Cyndi's List

Allen Grant's Family Homepages

London's Old Bailey Records (some surnames: Coleman, Hays, Eastwood, Reed, Elliott, Alexander, Russell etc.)