Greetings all, Bridgett had asked me about researching Tennessee Land Grants. Rather than answer her privately, I am send this to the list. Perhaps this will help a few of you folks. First, the Tennessee State Library and Archives holds Tennessee’s land grants records and microfilms of them can be purchased. I believe that $20 per roll + $1 shipping is the price. There are *many* rolls. These records include the pre-statehood North Carolina grants because many NC records were copied eons ago by TN. The way to access them is to use the card file index at the library. Of course, if you live far from TSLA, this could prove difficult to access that index. Maybe one of our CCs who is connected with TSLA can answer about surname lookups, obtaining copies of individual grants, etc. Not my bailiwick. There is another way to do this. The genealogy bookmonger, Bryon Sistler has a series of seventeen paperback surname index books made directly from TSLA’s card file index. http://www.mindspring.com/~sistler/tnland.html Note that while Bryon sells the books by alphabetical order, he is planning to publish a complete two volume hardbound set. He currently has a pre-publication discount. Looks like a shipping date around July. I will order the two volume set and might do an occasion lookup for our CCs, but *not* for the general public. But don’t ask until late summer. Once the "proper" ancestor is found in the index, then photocopies of the grant may be ordered from TSLA. Bryon claims his index books holds 162,000 entries. How many microfilms would that require for full text originals? And at the $20 each. Oy vay! Fred