The Beginner's Guide to Using Tax Lists
by Carroll, Cornelius
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Baltimore: Clearfield Co. New. (1997) 2002. Reprint. Paperback. Paperback. 60 pages. Tax lists are one of our most valuable, if often neglected, sources of genealogical information. Tax lists can refer to personal property tax lists, tithables, poll lists, land tax lists, and rent rolls. They usually divulge the names of heads of households and other males aged 16 or over, as well as valuations of slaves, cattle, horses, other types of personal property, land taxes, and notes of interest. They can be used not only to trace a family's migration and its taxable property, but also to prove parentage when no other records are available. Tax lists place individuals in a particular place at a particular time and indicate the amount and type of property owned. They may also indicate the relationship of individuals in a household and their approximate ages. <I>The Beginner's Guide to Using Tax Lists</I> is Cornelius Carroll's primer for making the best genealogical usage of tax lists. At the outset the author differentiates between tax lists, quit rents, tithables, militia lists, censuses, and similar records and the laws that applied to them. Then, by focusing on the tax lists of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, he demonstrates how tax lists can be used for determining parentage, birth and death dates, indentured servitude, slavery, manumission, and racial status. They can be used, in conjunction with other records to help determine the parentage of a female, the date of a marriage, migration routes, and the accuracy of family traditions. Mr. Carroll has also included a list of dates of county formation for the four states referred to above and a number of sample tax lists in order to expose researchers to the legal and other factors affecting the ages and classes of people who were taxable at any given time. .
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- Title
- The Beginner's Guide to Using Tax Lists
- Author
- Carroll, Cornelius
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0806347074
- ISBN 13
- 9780806347073
- Publisher
- Clearfield Co
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- (1997) 2002
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- GENEALOGY, REFERENCE
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- Genealogy / Reference / How-To;
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