CENSUS RECORDS

Federal censuses for Tennessee have been lost or destroyed for 1790 and 1800, though tax lists can serve as substitutes for the missing enumerations. The 1810 census has survived for only Rutherford and Grainger counties, and the 1820 enumeration exists for only twenty-six counties, all in middle and west Tennessee. Beginning in 1830, the censuses are available for each decennial year through 1920, except for the nation-wide destroyed census of 1890. All are indexed in at least one format. No territorial or state censuses are known to exist except for the reconstructed records found in:
Fulcher, Richard Carlton, comp. 1770–1790 Census of the Cumberland Settlements: Davidson, Sumner, Tennessee Counties (In What is Now Tennessee). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987.

Tennessee Research Sources

Schweitzer, George K. Tennessee Genealogical Research. Knoxville: the author, 1983. (This valuable volume provides historical information as well as listing the most helpful source material. It details library collections and county inventories with dates.)
Williams, Samuel Cole. History of the Lost State of Franklin. Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1924.
Folmsbee, Stanley John, Robert E. Corlew, and Enoch L. Mitchell. History of Tennessee. 4 vols. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1960.

Archives, Libraries and Societies.
Tennessee State Library and Archives
403 Seventh Avenue, North
Nashville, TN 37243-0312
http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statlib/tslahome.htm

Tennessee Historical Society
War Memorial Building
300 Capital Boulevard
Nashville, TN 37243

East Tennessee Historical Center
Mailing Address:
314 West Clinch Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37902-1610
Street Address:
500 West Clinch Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37902-2505