AAG highly recommends that all family historians should learn our area history and the county formations. Why? Without this knowledge, they will be very lost in understanding how their ancestors lived and where to find information about them.

Area History

• The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, The Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky 1740-1790, by Archibald Henderson

• History of Western NC [text book]

• History of Western NC [e-book]

• History of the Carolina Mountains

• Pre-1796 East Tennessee

• TN Encyclopedia of History & Culture

• Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century (1853),
  2007 Online Edition

• Georgia History

• About North Georgia - History, Travel & Adventure in the North GA Mountains -
  by Randy Golden

• A Brief History of South Carolina

• The Historical Marker Database

Biographies of individuals are brief summaries of a person's life and often contain very helpful genealogical information.  However, they were written based on that particular author's research; and their accuracy will depend on just how detailed and thorough that author performed their research.  Prior to the internet, it was very costly and time-consuming to conduct genealogy research covering a geographical area beyond one county at a time.  Consequently, old biographies may have been based on research conclusions that did not include the 'big picture'.  Unfortunately, there are also numerous fraudulent biographies on the internet.  We suggest that  biographies be used merely as a research tool and not viewed as factual.  If there are no sources cited or the information in a biography cannot be duplicated with sound genealogical research practices, it should be ignored.

It would take us numerous web pages to inform our visitors about the awesome and extensive history of our area. So many other web sites have already done this so well, that we see no reason to try and duplicate their efforts. Below are links to these wonderful county history sites.  Enjoy!!

PBS Apr 2009 Film: 
Appalachia
A History of Mountains and People

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