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LeAnne --------------B28CA23CE705AD5924CA4A5D Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from alfred.itg.ti.com (alfred.itg.ti.com [157.170.188.38]) by rlep1.itg.ti.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA01353 for <a0168532@rmkmail.dseg.ti.com>; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:04:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from gatekeep.ti.com (ti.com [192.94.93.61]) by alfred.itg.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06915 for <LeAnne.Davis@ti.com>; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:04:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from fp-1.rootsweb.com (fp-1.rootsweb.com [207.113.233.233]) by gatekeep.ti.com (8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08198 for <LeAnne.Davis@ti.com>; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:04:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA14519 for owner-WEAVER@lists.rootsweb.com; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:04:46 -0700 (PDT) X-From_: willhn@flash.net Wed Sep 2 15:04:34 1998 Received: from bl-4.rootsweb.com (rootsweb.com [204.212.38.29]) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA14399 for <WEAVER-L@fp-1.rootsweb.com>; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from endeavor.flash.net (endeavor.flash.net [209.30.0.40]) by bl-4.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA31130 for <WEAVER-L@rootsweb.com>; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:04:33 -0700 Received: from default (p107.amax2.dialup.dal2.flash.net [209.30.165.107]) by endeavor.flash.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA04191 for <WEAVER-L@rootsweb.com>; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:04:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <015701bdd6be$506887c0$6ba51ed1@default> From: "Harold Williams" <willhn@flash.net> To: <WEAVER-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: NC & TN Old-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:09:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list X-Envelope-To: WEAVER-L The following article appeared in The Dallas Morning News. Should be of interest to all researching NC & TN. Harold in TX ------ LLOYD BOCKSTRUCK,ed. FAMILY TREE ---------- A New Guide To Ancestors In Tennessee --------- Among the states in the Union, Tennessee figures most prominently in the ancestry of Texans. In 1796, Tennessee was the 15th state to enter the Union, but settlers had lived there since Colonial times. Tennessee has no 1790, 1800 or 1810 census records, so it is difficult to find who lived in Tennessee or in what county a family resided. Because of a complex legal situation, the state of North Carolina continued to own all of the vacant lands in Tennessee until 1806, so genealogists must look to an entirely different jurisdiction to locate the relevant records for ancestors in Tennessee. Finding your Tennessee ancestors has become easier with the release of North Carolina's index to Tennessee land warrants. It is an alphabetical index containing names of individuals who had initiated the process to ac- quire lands in what is now Tennessee. North Carolina 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 Tennessee. 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 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 county where the land lay at the time of the grant. It is contained on microfiche. Since Tennessee was under the control of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War, the records of the "over the mountain men" from east Tennessee who routed the imperial British forces at the Battle of King's Mountain would be listed as North Carolina soldiers. 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 North Carolina Archives has prepared an every-name microfiche index to the entire set. Many of these Revolutionary veterans appear in no other record. Because North Carolina 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 of these magnificent sets to the Genealogy Section of the Dallas Public Library. The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., is one of the largest libraries in the world, containing a wealth of information for genealogical research. Its collections of local history and genealogical material for the British Isles and Ireland are superb, second only to those collections relating to the United States. Judith P. Reid, the head of the library's Local History and Genealogy Reading Room, has compiled a guide, Family Ties in England. Scotland. Wales, & Ireland Sources for Genealogical Research, to assist researchers who come to the Library of Congress or other large research libraries with genealogical holdings. She has a chapter for each of the four locales and has arranged each one in bibliographical categories. Because of the close association of these four countries, you should study each chapter for relevant materials. It includes both book and nonbook formats and is a welcome addition indeed. It is available for $5.50 from the Superintendent of Documents, Box 371954, Pittsburgh, Pa. 152507954. It is stock number 03O-00l-174-1. Credit card orders are taken at (202) 512-1800 and fax orders at (202) 512-2250. The handling fee is $3.50. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Lloyd Bockstruck is supervisor of the genealogy section of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library. Write Family Tree, Today section, P.O. Box 655237, Dallas, Texas 75265. --------------B28CA23CE705AD5924CA4A5D--