This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeB.2ACE/803.1 Message Board Post: Birth Certificates were started state wide in TN until either 1912 or 1914 and are pretty scant before the 1920's. You can check with the TN Bureau of Vital Statistics in Nashville for further information. I don't have that address handy right now.