WELCOME TO WATAUGA ASSOCIATION OF GENEALOGISTS in NORTHEAST TENNESSEE.
Our group was organized in 1971 and published the first Bulletin May 1972. The Bulletin is devoted to copies and abstracts of original source data relating to Northeast Tennessee and adjacent areas. The Association publishes the Bulletin semi-annually – April and October.
The Association meets the first Tuesday evening of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room of Johnson City Public Library, 100 W. Millard St., Johnson City, TN. No meetings are held in January and February; dinner meeting in July and December. VISITORS are welcome to attend all meetings.
Membership is open to persons with genealogical or historical interests. Dues are $18.00 yearly, payable to the organization on or before January 1 of each calendar year. If you wish to join, please make checks payable to Watauga Association of Genealogists-Northeast Tennessee. A new member receives two issues of the Bulletin for the year he/she joins. All members are entitled to one free query per issue. Non-members may place a query consisting of less than five lines for $5.00. For more information about our group, please contact us at: wagsnetn40@gmail.com
Books and genealogical materials donated to WAGS will be reviewed in the Bulletins as space permits and will be donated to the Johnson City Public Library for the Tennessee Room.
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All photographs displayed on this site were taken by Betty Jane Hylton unless otherwise specified.
Love the beautiful pictures. Great layout on the website too.
I have several early settler ancestors some of which include Henry Johnson (Johnson City) my 4th great grandfather,Jacob Hoss & Edmund Williams of Washington County my 6th great grandfathers, Julius Ceasar Dugger of Carter County my 6th great grandfather. Thomas Carrier of Sulllivan County. Many of my ancestors were here when Tennessee became a state and most of them stayed here with the majority of my relatives still here. Once you live in East Tennessee there is no better place to go. I’ve always said my roots run deep here and have no desire to go any other place.
We agree, northeastern Tennessee is a great place to live! Thanks for your comments and for sharing your early settler family members.
My roots run deep in East Tennessee ; William and Susannah Graham Walker came to Washington Co (NC) 1793 from Montgomery Co., VA and bought land from William Carson ; my gg grandfather John Walker was born 1796 when Tennessee became a state. My 5th great grandfather Thomas Murray got land 1791 from NC and this same land was passed along to Barron and Bacon and Walker, West Sinking Creek. The land I grew up on and played in Sinking Creek.
All my families made the trip along the Great Wagon Road to Tennessee, stopping off along the way and later generations scattering South and West.
Thanks for sharing a little about your family Janelle. Your roots were firmly planted here in the 18th century.