Your Knox County TNGenWeb hostesses are OVERWHELMED to announce that Robert McGinnis, the Knox County Cemetery Historian, has agreed to make transcriptions of more than 450,000 Knox County tombstone inscriptions available exclusively through the Knox County TNGenWeb site!!! Proceeds from the sale of Robert's transcriptions benefit the James White Fort Association -- JWF is a living history-style recreation of the first settlement in the present city of Knoxville. The entire Cemeteries section of the Knox County TNGenWeb site has been revamped with new information and hints of much more to come. For instance, soon you'll be able to search a database of Knox County burials to help you identify which of Robert's transcriptions you need to obtain. What makes Robert's transcriptions so wonderful? He's probably the most-knowledgeable person about Knox County's history and residents during the past 220 or so years. His transcriptions don't just contain the data that was on the tombstones. Robert has spent 25 years poring through church records, funeral home records, death certificates, obituaries, wills, deeds, and family Bibles to enhance the transcribed data. Keep in mind that thousands of people left the outlying counties and moved to Knoxville for business or employment opportunities. You might be surprised to find out who's buried in this county! We know you're chomping at the bit to come visit our new section, so here's the URL: http://www.wdbj.net/~tnknox/cemeteries/ See you soon! Now -- be sure to spread the word via personal and list mail to anyone you think would be interested.