Hancock County was formed in the year 1844 and named after John Hancock. It covers an area of 224 sq mi that offers accommodation to more than 6.8K people with marvelous combination of races including White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others along with 2.7K households and 1.9K family units. Sneedville is the county seat and the largest city.

The organized database, detailed information, excellent search facility have all together popularized the study of genealogy. Now each and anyone can learn a lot about their ancestors. The Hancock County search index offers information including civil war particulars, property deeds, census, ancestral SSN, military service, probate data, separation decree information, civil court data, birth, death news, marriage particulars, and many more, colonization history.