The Tigretts of West Tennessee and Their Familiesby Gwendolyn McCaffrey McReynolds When spurred by a passing remark made by her grandmother, Grace Truman Edwards Loggins, Gwendolyn McReynolds embarked...  Read More

Hardin County Blue and Gray: Civil War Soldiers from Hardin County, Tennesseeby David B. Cagle,Ronney R. Brewington, editor With 11 ancestral connections who were active in the Civil War, David B. Cag...  Read More

John R. Long has compiled a book entitled More Than Names on A Wall. Building from the list of 167 names on the Madison County War Memorial monument at Liberty Gardens Park in north Jackson, and addin...  Read More

Just the other day, a Boy Scout visited the Tennessee Room with a sheet of questions to ask, all centered around the usage of indexes for genealogical research.  It is sometimes easy to take resource...  Read More

From 1994 to 2009, Robert D. Taylor served as Assistant Tennessee Room Librarian. As it goes, he passed away on July 8th, 2014, in his home in San Bernadino, California. Sharing his wonderful voice a...  Read More

In 2018, the Jackson-Madison County Library sponsored a project, spearheaded by library staff members Mike Baker and Jack Wood, to obtain a Tennessee historical marker commemorating Mabel Louise "Big...  Read More

Type your new text here. Volunteers Helen Johnson (right foreground) and Sandra Kelly (left.) Helen Oxley Johnson was a treasured friend of the Tennessee Room and a charter member of the Mid-West Ten...  Read More

The Tennessee Room has added Genealogy Standards, in its 2nd revised edition, to its holdings. Genealogy Standards, an official manual designed as a guidebook for genealogical certification, clarifies...  Read More