icq#4202467 -----Original Message----- From: Debbie McConnel <debbiemc@telalink.net> To: TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com <TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [TNGEN-L] Tennessee Land Grants TSLA will do a name search for land grants. Check out the following address for more information: http://www.state.tn.us./sos/statelib/pubsvs/mailstat.htm#Land_Grants Debbie -----Original Message----- From: Fred Smoot <dogtrot@well.com> To: TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com <TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 12:06 PM Subject: [TNGEN-L] Tennessee Land Grants >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 Tennessees 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 TSLAs 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 dont 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 > > >==== TNGEN Mailing List ==== >Don't forget to visit TNGenWeb's Bulletin Board >http://pluto.beseen.com/boardroom/d/19731/ >Help the folks out if you can, but remember to answer >the query so it can be seen on line. > > ==== TNGEN Mailing List ==== Don't forget to visit TNGenWeb's Bulletin Board http://pluto.beseen.com/boardroom/d/19731/ Help the folks out if you can, but remember to answer the query so it can be seen on line.