Event Education-Patriot Paths: Finding Your Tennessee American Revolution Ancestor

Patriot Paths: Finding Your Tennessee American Revolution Ancestor by Melissa Barker

The Revolutionary War had a huge impact on the area that would become the State of Tennessee. Although settlement of the Eastern part of the state had begun in earnest in the 1770s, it was the military land grants issued by the State of North Carolina that encouraged Revolutionary War Veterans and their families to brave the new Western frontier. Learn how to trace your Revolutionary War Veteran's footsteps to Tennessee using the Tennessee State Library and Archives Patriot Paths database.

Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives. She is affectionally known as The Archive Lady to the genealogy community. She lectures, teaches, and writes about the genealogy research process, researching in archives and records preservation. She conducts virtual presentations across the United States and other countries for various genealogy groups and societies. She writes a popular blog entitled A Genealogist in the Archives and is a well-known published book reviewer. She has been a Professional Genealogist for the past 20 years with expertise in Tennessee records. She has been researching her own family history for the past 35 years.

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