Did your ancestors live in Jonesborough or Washington County prior to 1850?

The Jonesborough Genealogical Society is planning a publication on the early settlers (prior to 1850) of Jonesborough and Washington County, Tennessee.  You do not have to be a member of the Jonesborough Genealogical Society to contribute to this project, but your membership would be very welcome!

Information is still being accepted.  If you have information to contribute about your early Jonesborough ancestors, be sure to get your information to the JGS.  If you are able to volunteer your time and talents to the Jonesborough Genealogical Society to prepare this material for publication, please use the e-mail link at the bottom of the page.

• Give full names of ancestor or ancestors.  Give wife's maiden name.  List their sons and daughters and who they married.  What nationality were they?

• Where did they live before coming to Washington County?  Did they travel to Washington County with other settlers?

• Did your ancestors have slaves or house servants?  Did they have roomers?  Please give their names.

• Do you know any early African American families?  Please give their names and where they lived and any stories concerning them.

• Did they purchase a land grant?  Did they purchase their land from another settler?

• On what creek or in what community did they live?  Who were their neighbors?

• Did they stay in Washington County, or migrate to another state?  Did their sons and daughters leave Washington County?  To what states did they migrate?

• Where did they attend church?  Where did the children attend school?

• What was the occupation of the father?

• In what cemetery are they buried?

• Did the male ancestor fight in any of the wars – State of Franklin, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican American or Civil War?  Any war stories?

• Did the male ancestor or ancestors hold any county offices?

• Please include stories pertaining to family, other families or county history.

• We would like to have copies of family group sheets, family photographs, their homes or business.

• Give any other important information.

HOW TO SEND YOUR INFORMATION

Send your information in any way that is readily available to you.  Please do not send your only copy of your family genealogy or photographs!  Many photo shops can copy old photographs for a minimal price.

If you have a computer and can compose your family history and any transcriptions in Microsoft Word,  please send hard copies as well as saving it on a floppy disk or writable CD. 

If you have photographs to share and have access to a scanner, please scan at high resolution (minimum of 300 dpi) and print on high quality photographic paper.  You may also want to save it as a .TIF (Tagged Image File) or .JPG file and send it on a CD or floppy disk (image file may be too large to fit on a floppy disk).  

Please be sure to identify everything you send (including floppy or CD) with your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number.    If you're sending photos or CDs, please send in a protective envelope with cardboard. 

WHERE TO SEND YOUR INFORMATION

    Jonesborough Genealogical Society
    c/o Gene Hurdt, President
    210 N. Cherokee Street
    Jonesborough, TN 37659-1208

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