Tax Records

Through the years tax records have been widely recognized as an important source of genealogical evidence. When many of the early census schedules were lost they were replaced (reasonably well) by contemporaneous tax lists. Others have been published separately; and many others have been microfilmed. In some places, during the early periods, you can follow your ancestors through the tax lists as if they (the lists) were a yearly census.

Val D. Greenwood, The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy.

Tax Records Index

 

Name	Year	Tax Decription
Buhler A.1	1866	IRS Tax Assessment Lists2

Notes: 1. Buhler A., 1866 U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, Louisiana, monthly lists, Division No. 10, District 1, Image 211 0f 591; National Archives micropublication  M769, roll  ---. Downloaded from Ancestry.com, 1 January 2002, http://www.ancestry.com/ Image republished in compliance with Ancestry.com license and terms and conditions of use.   2. An excellent discussion of U.S. Civil War taxes written by Cynthia G. Fox,  Income Tax Records of the Civil War Years, was published in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) magazine Prologue, Winter 1986, Vol. 18, No. 4. The article  can be read online at http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1986/winter/civil-war-tax-records.html#T4/   updated 4 September 2010