Tidbits and Links
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Shave Signs - remember these fun road signs? Populations of early Tennessee Counties 1800-1830; Weakley Co Pop. 1830-2000; USA pop. 1790-1980. ------------------- NICKNAMES of Girls and Boys first names. ------------------ GENEALOGY - You know your are taking Genealogy too serious if....... ------------------- NAMING
PATTERNS - Naming Patterns of the 19th Century & Dutch naming
customs Weakley
County Tennesseeans Know - OR - You might be a Weakley
Countian if..... SOUTHERNERS
KNOW - The average Southerner knows..... SOUTHERN SAYINGS & Tips for Northerners in the South 100
YEARS
AGO - how our lives have changed over the past 100 years NEW - 1955 -
Comments on prices
of things in the year 1955 (only 54 yrs ago, today being 2009) Purchasing
power of money in the United States from 1774 to 2006 - how
much money would you need in 2006 to have the same purchasing power of
$500 in year 1774? - you would need $12,890. Social
Security Numbers - Who knew Grandpa lived in
Montana?? - The first 3 digits of a person's Social Security Number
tells the State where the person lived when the number was assigned. States
2 letter Abreviation - just in case you forget 20
Generations Chart - you have over a million kinfolk GOOD
THINGS TO KNOW - from using bounce - bee stings & pennys -
Hydrogen Peroxide - 5 things your cell phone can do - recognizing a
stroke - warm drink after a meal - Uses for coffee fileters -
killing mosquitos with listerine - killing fire ant colony with soda
water - Another 28 Household tips including uses for Alka Seltzer,
removing crayon marks on walls, remove blood stains on clothes, remove
burnt food from skillet and lots more.
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| If you want to search the Weakley County Mailing List
ARCHIVES - for all posts that have your surname in them - Go to this
site and type in the surname ONLY that you are looking for in the
Subject line. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=TNWEAKLE STATE ARCHIVES.....site on history of tennessee, military records, etc - check here first http://www.tennessee.gov/TSLA/ Newly added INDEX of death certificates: 1908-1913 - 1914-1916 - __________ Looking for a summary type format on Tennessee History - look here http://newdeal.feri.org/guides/tnguide/cont.htm ----------- Searching for Tennessee deaths 1949 - 2005 - on Shelby County Registers website http://register.shelby.tn.us/ -------------- University of Tennessee Yearbooks online - 1897 thru 2001 - this is really neat! -------------- The following 3 links will take you to some good reference ONLINE books about Tennessee 1. This is a WPA book - Tennessee: A Guide to the State first published in 1939. The entire pdf of the book can be found here. You kinda have to poke around but the book is filled with many old photos - includes info on Weakley and surrounding areas - Davy Crockett etc. http://books.google.com/books?id=e31FpfI1CVMC 2. Here is a webpage with a list of online Google books about Tennessee http://www.rainydayresearch.com/googlebooks/googlebooksTN.html 3. This one is the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. If you look at the links on the left column there are links to maps and image galleries. Above those on the left, click on "browse by category" to read all the articles. In the "county history" category there are individual county histories, mostly written by the various county historians, and there are county photos. There are many other interesting categories. http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/index.php?pg=thisland.htm --------------------- OLD OCCUPATIONS and what they meant - use your back button to return to Weakley County --------------- "She passed away on Monday" the obit said, but WHAT WAS THE
DATE?
This neat website will give you calendar years, great for figuring out
death dates, marriage dates, etc. Rootsweb SURNAMES lists....find them, search them.... Social Security Death Index Mark Reed's.....CENSUS ONLINE....AWESOME. Search all
counties of
TN plus other states. Find Census that have been put online. Neat inflation calculator to find
out how much
one's ancestor was worth in year 2000 dollars. Form
adjusts any given amount of money for
inflation,
according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2000. Early maps of US for
genealogy....really good! Great cemetries search.....almost 3
million
records world wide THE BELL WITCH WEBSITE.....located in Adams, TN North of Nashville. learn about the hauntings of the Bell family by an unfriendly presence. http://www.bellwitch.org/home.htm
NATIONAL ARCHIVES online - you can now search the National
Archives
- new website. More than 50 million records from Civil War battles to
family
immigration files. TNGenWeb Special Project....TENNESSEANS IN CIVIL WAR. Battlefield of Civil War .....NICE EASY SITE http://www.genealogyinc.com/tennessee/ -------------------------
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