Found this on another list-Thought it was worth shareing! Among the states in the Union, Tennessee figures most prominently in the ancestry of Texans. In 1796, TN was the 15th state to enter the Union, but settlers had lived there since Colonial times. TN has no 1790, 1800 or 1810 census records, so it is difficult to find who lived in TN or in what county a family resided. Because of a complex legal situation, the state of NC continued to own all of the vacant lands in TN until 1806, so genealogits must look to an entirley different jurisdiction to locate the relevant records for ancestors in TN. Finding your TN ancestors has become easier with the release of NC's index to TN land warrants. It is an alphabetical index containing names of individual who had initiated the process to acquire lands in what is now TN. NC issued land warrants to individuals who had earned land as their bounty by fighting in the Continental Line during the Revolutionary War. The state also issued land warrants to individuals who purchased the right to lands in TN. This new index includes both classes of landowners. A land warrant is an intermediate step in the land-granting process. You can expect to find the names of many individuals in the index who will never appear in the land grant index. Sometimes a person sold his warrant to another. Sometimes he died, and the grant was issued in the name of the his heir. Sometimes he abandoned the property because of prospects of economic despair. The index gives the name of warrantee, the reel and frame numbers on the microfilm where the record may be found and the count where the land lay at the time of the grant. It is contained on microfiche. Since TN was under the control of NC during the Revolutionary War, the records of the 'over the mountain men' from east TN who routed the imperial British forces at the Battle of King's Mountain would be listed in NC soliers. The Tar Heel State has 10 rolls of Revolutionary Army Accounts. Unfortunately, the records have no predictable arrangement. They are not alphabetical, or by county or chronological. The series is being transcribed, with nine volumes finished, but it is far from completion. Fortunately, the NC Archives has prepared an every-name microfiche index to the entire set. Many of these Revolutionary veterans appear in no other record. Because NC militia records no longer survive, the army accounts are even more valuable. The General Levi Casey Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has presented both the these magnificent set to the Genealogy Section of the Dallas Public Library.