Local & Family History

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Do you have an ancestor who worked for Southern Railway? – Souvenir, Knoxville Division, Southern Railway, 1903, is new on the...
Resolve to attend genealogy courses in the new year! – The Genealogy Course Schedule for 2018 has been released.
Construction Gay Street Viaduct, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1919 – Photo album of the Gay Street Viaduct construction on the McClung Digital...
Mining report from 1854 on the McClung Digital Collection – Report of a Geological Survey and Examination of Lands owned by the...
2017 Genealogy Lecture Schedule Released – Genealogy Lecture Schedule for 2017
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New at McClung

  • Sinking the Sultana : a Civil War story of imprisonment, greed, and a doomed journey home
  • The top 300 surnames of Derry-Londonderry
  • Powhatan Indian place names in Tidewater Virginia
  • Civil war and agrarian unrest : the Confederate South and southern Italy
  • The researcher's guide to American genealogy
  • The Chicago manual of style
  • Haversacks, hardtack, and unserviceable mules : the civil war journey of a Union quartermaster in Tennessee
  • Lost restaurants of Knoxville