Tennessee Obituaries

Volunteers Needed
This is a new project for California and we hope to make it a success by getting many local newspapers & funeral homes involved! We need people willing to trascribe newspaper obituaries that have agreed to let us print them. Please look at the list below and if you would like to volunteer to transcribe these papers pleas contact Kellie Crnkovich.

Please contact Kellie Crnkovich if you would like to submit your keepsakes for this project.

How you can help:
Go through old newspapers (published prior to 1923) and copy the obituaries found. We will also accept single obituaries that you have in your files. You can submit either complete obituaries or abstracts (just the facts) of the obituaries. Check with your local library to see what old newspapers they have on microfilm. The California Obituary Project will abide by today's copyright laws. We will no longer put online obituaries published after December 31, 1923, unless you were the original author of the obituary, or the newspaper in question grants permission to reprint the obituary, or the obituary is that of a family member (you must give the relation), or you submit an abstract of your obituaries. A good abstract should include the paper's name, name of deceased, age, date of death, and date that the obituary appears in the paper (in parenthesis ).

Participating Newspapers

Public Domain Obituaries (pre-1929)

McNairy County Independent

Fayetteville Observer

Counties
**Only Counties with Obituaries are Linked**

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

Genealogy links for Tennessee

Tennessee GenWeb

Volunteers Needed

This is a new project for Tennessee and we hope to make it a success by getting many local newspapers & funeral homes involved.

We encourage individuals with Tennessee Obituaries dated 1929 and before, to come forward with them. Please submit them in e-mail to Tennessee Obits, and include the source of your obituary. We will be glad to credit you as the source of this information.

Ways You Can Help

You can help us by submitting a letter to the publisher of any local Tennessee Newspaper and get permission for current obits to be published. A sample letter can be found here.

Copyright Law:

The Tennessee Obituary Project will abide by today's copyright laws. Obituaries published after December 31, 1929, unless:

you were the original author of the obituary
the newspaper in question grants permission to reprint the obituary
the obituary is that of a family member (you must give the relation)
you submit an abstract of your obituaries. A good abstract might give the paper's name, name of deceased, age, date of death, and date that the obituary appears in the paper (in parenthesis). Do you currently receive a Tennessee Newspaper? If so you too could be part of this project by helping us create Abstract Obituaries from current data. Please contact us for further details on this.

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