Surname Index

2,130 family names appear across this archive's census pages, obituaries, wills, deeds, cemetery records, and family histories — spanning Tennessee, Georgia, and Texas. Pick a starting letter to browse.

Names are indexed as the original documents spell them, which is rarely just one way. Nineteenth-century clerks wrote by ear, so the same family can appear as Crumley and Crumly, or Etris and Ettris, on papers filed a decade apart. Check the neighbouring spellings before concluding a family is absent.

A surname listed here means the name appears somewhere in that record, not that the record is about that person: a will names heirs and witnesses, and a census sheet lists every household member. Where a name occurs in several counties, each county keeps its own entry, since the records were transcribed county by county.