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In understanding a family, it is essential to understand the area they lived in. 

 

  • Looking up your ancestor on the appropriate federal census record will also sometime identify the area your ancestor lived in.  Census records of Perry County will usually indicate a civil district.  So examining a civil district map would be extremely useful.  Sometimes the census records will even indicate a road, or if you're really fortunate, a house number on that road.

 

  • Examining land records will give  a description of the property your ancestor lived in.  This may include neighbor's names, names of nearby rivers or streams or roads.  By studying a map of the county, both of the time frame that your ancestor lived there and today, it might be possible to locate the property your family owned.

 

  • Migration trends are important, too.  When a family moved from one area to another, many times it was with fellow family members.   Either families would travel together, or some family members would migrate and then have other family members follow them within a couple years.    If they went by themselves, then they would usually follow a recognized migration trail.  Migration could also be as a result of a soldier earning a land bounty warrant - he would either sell it or use it to buy land in an unsettled area.  If they just "showed up" in an area, then an understanding of the migration trails might help you trace back to where they may have come from.

 

 

The purpose of this page is to give you guidance on both maps of Perry County, as well as links or information on migration trails to Perry County.  If anyone has any website links or original materials for these purposes, please e-mail Jan Monnin.  Thank you.

 

 

  • Maps of Perry County Tennessee

 

Page or Map (click on the name to go to that page)

 Submitted by Date
Formation of Perry County Jan Monnin 18 Aug 2008
1836 plat map of Perry County civil districts Jan Monnin 18 Aug 2008
1845 plat map of Perry County Jan Monnin 18 Aug 2008
1895 map of Perry County Jan Monnin 18 Aug 2008
1990 TDOT highway map of Perry County Jan Monnin 18 Aug 2008
     

 

 

 

  • Maps of Tennessee

 

Page or Map (click on the name to go to that page)

 Submitted by Date
TnGenWeb project - Maps our Ancestors Followed Jan Monnin 18 Aug 2008

2009 Maps of Tennessee

You can now order the new and improved maps of Tennessee. It features information and interstate miles and exit markers. It has information about emergency reference markers and information about Tennessee 511. And it is all on a larger scale, making it easier to read.

Order on line at:

 www.tn.gov/tdot/MapOrder/maporder.htm

Peggy Coleman

  
     

 

 

 

  • Migration Maps/Information pertaining to Tennessee

 

Page or Map (click on the name to go to that page)

 Submitted by Date
Migrations.org Project for Perry County Jan Monnin 18 Aug 2008
     
     

 

 

 

  • Other useful map websites

 

Page or Map (click on the name to go to that page)

 Submitted by Date
Library of Congress American Memory Map Collection Jan Monnin 18 Aug 2008
     
     

 

 

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This page was last updated on: 10/20/09

Send mail to Jan Monnin, the Perry County Coordinator with questions or comments about this web site.

 

 

       

 

The Perry County TnGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information found should not be taken at face value, but should be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence.  You are welcome to copy information found at the Perry County TnGenWeb for personal use and share information with other researchers or genealogical organizations, but this information may not under any conditions be sold or used in a commercial project without express prior written permission.  Links to external web sites are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or approval of any of the products, services or opinions contained in any external web site.
(thank you SM Pratt at http://www.tngenweb.org/loudon/ for this wording)