Tennessee Records

An encyclopedia of Tennessee genealogy Acklen's Bible Records and Marriage Bonds is one of the foremost Tennessee source-books in print. It consists almost entirely of records of births marriages and deaths plus marriage licenses of Dickson Knox Lebanon and Wilson counties. Sections devoted exclusively to marriages generally run chronologically giving exact dates and full names of brides and grooms. The bible records however offer the most substantial evidence of family connections and in the manner of such records are actually organic family records listing names and dates of birth marriage and death through several generations depending of course on the extent to which a particular bible was handed on in the family and kept up to date. The work is complemented by a surname index of nearly 15000 entries.