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Location: Tennessee, USA
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United_States_Census_Transcription_Project

The is the home page for the Tennessee Census Transcription Project. The desired goals for this project is to:

1) Create a Free Space Page (FSP) for each county listing the censuses in which the county participated.

2) Create a FSP for each county/census page for each county/census event (i.e., Gibson County - 1850 census).

3) Create a FSP for each census image for a county. This FSP will contain an image of the census page.

4) Transcribe the census image.

5) Link each FSP with the equivalent category page

6) Link to or create profiles for each person listed on the image.

7) Link profiles to their census image.

Contents 1 BACKGROUND 2 VOLUNTEER 2.1 COUNTIES 2.1.1 SELECT A COUNTY 2.1.2 DEFUNCT COUNTIES 2.1.3 CONSOLIDATED COUNTIES 2.2 SOURCES

BACKGROUND

The first United States census that Tennessee participated in was the 1790 Federal census. Tennessee became a state in 1796, So, in the 1790 census, Tennessee would have been a territory.

The census years that will be involved will be 1790 - 1940 (minus 1890 which was completely destroyed by fire on 10 January 1921. We will also include the 1890 Veterans Schedule..

VOLUNTEER

Tennessee contains 95 counties with a estimated 2019 population of approximately 6.9 million people. Needless to say, this is a large project.

If you would be interested in helping, please leave a message in the 'public comment box' and any page or send me a private message.

COUNTIES

SELECT A COUNTY

Anderson	Bedford	Benton	Bledsoe	Blount	Bradley	Campbell	Cannon	Carroll	Carter
Cheatham	Chester	Claiborne	Clay	Cocke	Coffee	Crockett	Cumberland	Davidson	Decatur
DeKalb	Dickson	Dyer	Fayette	Fentress	Franklin	Gibson	Giles	Grainger	Greene
Grundy	Hamblen	Hamilton	Hancock	Hardeman	Hardin	Hawkins	Haywood	Henderson	Henry
Hickman	Houston	Humphreys	Jackson	Jefferson	Johnson	Knox	Lake	Lauderdale	Lawrence
Lewis	Lincoln	Loudon	Macon	Madison	Marion	Marshall	Maury	McMinn	McNairy
Meigs	Monroe	Montgomery	Moore	Morgan	Obion	Overton	Perry	Pickett	Polk
Putnam	Rhea	Roane	Robertson	Rutherford	Scott	Sequatchie	Sevier	Shelby	Smith
Stewart	Sullivan	Sumner	Tipton	Trousdale	Unicoi	Union	Van Buren	Warren	Washington
Wayne	Weakley	White	Williamson	Wilson

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DEFUNCT COUNTIES

James County (1871-1919) - Formed on 30 January 1871 from Bradley & Hamilton counties. Check these counties on the 1870 and prior censuses. The county went bankrupt in April 1919 and reincorporated into Hamilton County. ^[1]

CONSOLIDATED COUNTIES

Three Tennessee counties operate under consolidated city–county governments, a city and county that have been merged into one jurisdiction. As such, these governments are simultaneously a city, which is a municipal corporation, and a county, which is an administrative division of a state.

City of Nashville and Davidson County City of Lynchburg and Moore County City of Hartville and Trousdale County ^[1]

SOURCES

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} List of Counties in Tennessee<wikipedia, accessed 27 April 2020