Of great interest of Giles, Lincoln and other middle Tennessee counties--Merrell, Paysinger, Carden, Minatra, Birdsong, and many, many more surnames...... I recently found on-line an inventory of an amazing work on family history located at TSLA in Nashville. The widow of one John Robert Paysinger donated 33 years worth of his work to the library. I studied and copied from one reel many pieces of interesting and useful information on my husband's Paysinger family from Giles and Lincoln Counties. Many family names are mentioned in the on-line summary. You can see the inventory of his manuscript collection at: http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/techsvs/manud/paysijr.htm Good luck, happy hunting. I'm still dizzy from my Saturday afternoon spent searching. Julia SAVAGE MINATRA Rutherford County,TN