SMARC Tax Lists

The Beginner's Guide to Using Tax Lists
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.

GA	NC	TN
Georgia Tax Index, 1789-99 - at ancestry.com Early GA Tax Digests GA Tax FAQ's @ GA Archives Index to Georgia Tax Digests 1789-1817		Early Tax Lists at the TSLA Index to Early TN Tax Lists - by Byron and Barbara Sistler
Transcribed County Records:
1855 Lumpkin GA - by Dan Pierce 1855 Union GA - Young Cane Dist. Only - by Dan Pierce 1849 Cherokee Co., GA [2 districts that became Pickens Co., GA]- by Linda Woodward Geiger	1792 Index to Rutherford NC Tax List 1792 Rutherford NC - by Paul Sarrett, Jr.	1836 Monroe TN Civil Districts and Tax Lists - Book by James l. Douthat 1836 Bradley TN Civil Districts & Tax Lists - Book by James l. Douthat 1836 Blount TN Civil Districts and Tax Lists - Book by James l. Douthat 1836 McMinn TN 1862 Bradley TN 1909 Bradley TN - Delinquent Taxpayers 1872 Monroe TN - Tax Releases - by Carolyn Whitaker
There are many tax list records that have yet to be transcribed. If you are interested in seeing more of these types of records on this web site, please contact us. We will help you locate the records for transcription. Thank you. Sometimes tax lists are located within court records, so be sure to look there also.