The Grainger County Historical Society's excellent DVD production, The Valley of Independence, is available for purchase.

Click here to read and be informed.
Then, please click here for more details and to sign a petition. You should also write your Congressional representatives and ask them to take measures to stop piracy/copyright infringement, but keep the Internet a place for free exchange of information and ideas.

The TN State Library & Archives has scheduled a free, public workshop on the topic of DNA Research and Genealogy.

A version of Rule's Standard History of Knoxville is available for download, free-of-charge, at GoogleBooks.

Please note that the best-available version of the book is Charles Reeves' reprint, complete with index (the only version that is indexed). You can view the book by clicking here.

Your Webmistress has authored several books that are of interest to researchers in the region. She has also collected a number of books and other items over the years in order to scan and add the photos and text to her genealogy/history Web sites.