In this two-volume set, Volume 1 is arranged by grooms, Volume 2 arranged by brides. There are approximately 109,000 marriages (218,000 names), excluding antebellum records from the area of Middle Tennessee, which do not exist. All pre-1861 marriages are set forth and, where feasible and convenient (primarily because of cutoff dates of the original books), the authors have also included many later records as well.
The information in the Brides Book (Volume 2), is a duplication of that in the Grooms, the difference being in the order in which they appear. Each volume is a single area-wide alphabetical listing of the records.
Where two dates appear on an entry, the first one is the date the license was issued, the second (in parentheses) the date the marriage was solemnized. If only one date is present, it usually means that the date of execution was the same as the date of license issuance. At the end of the entry is the county in which the marriage was executed.
The source of the information documented in these 2 volumes is from microfilm located at The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee. Biobliography included. By Byron & Barbara Sistler.
In this two-volume set, Volume 1 is arranged by grooms, Volume 2 arranged by brides. There are approximately 109,000 marriages (218,000 names), excluding antebellum records from the area of Middle Tennessee, which do not exist. All pre-1861 marriages are set forth and, where feasible and convenient (primarily because of cutoff dates of the original books), the authors have also included many later records as well. 
