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Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is tax records. Like city directories and voting registers, for example, they provide information for us between federal censuses. They also can go back to colonial times.
In the Quicksheet a list that contains the different types of taxes since colonial times in the U.S., and the type of genealogical information that is available in these records.
Derivative information, such as birth date, death date, and date of marriage can often be estimated or determined from the presence or absence of a person in a tax list.
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