Tax lists are one of our most valuable, if often neglected, sources of family research 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.

Tax Lists

  Searchable Databases: 

  Georgia Tax Index, 1789-99 - @  Ancestry.com

 Georgia Tax Records - FAQs

   Early TN Tax Lists, by County, available on microfilm

Carroll, Cornelius The Beginner's Guide to Using Tax Lists  [1996]
ISBN: 9780806347073
 tax lists of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee

Houston, Sandra K.  1830 Greene Co., TN Tax List  [1983]
ISBN-13: 9780893082864 ISBN: 0893082864
also contains Guardians and Orphans Court Records 1783-1870

Sistler, Bryon and Barbara   Index to Early Tennessee Tax Lists  [1983]

Fox, George and Juanita  Sevier Co. TN 1813 and 1837-1838 Tax Lists  [2004]
ISBN-13: 9780975404423 ISBN: 0975404423

Old Pendleton Chapter SCGS, 1866 Pickens Dist. 76 pgs  [order your copy here]

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