Free Indiana Online Tax Records

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.

Types of Taxes

• Income tax
• Federal direct tax
• Poll or head tax
• Real property, e.g., land
• Personal property, e.g., livestock, equipment, carriages, enslaved persons
• Other, such as special levies for roads, schools, etc.

Types of Information

• Date
• Residence address; property, license, or goods; value; tax amount; possibly profession, occupation, or trade
• Name of taxpayer, usually white adult males
• Town/township/city, county, and state of residence
• Owner and/or renter of property
• Number of white adult males in home
• Type and value of property taxed
• Livestock owned
• Personal property owned
• Amount of tax owed
• Profession, occupation, or trade
• Number of school-aged children
• Number of enslaved persons

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.

Good primers regarding the genealogical value of tax records and more details can be found in these articles:

• The Genealogical Benefits of Tax Records
• Using Poll Tax Records for Genealogy
• Genealogy 101: Tax Records
• Back to the Basics with Tax Records: Part 1
• Back to the Basics with Tax Records: Part 2
• Back to the Basics with Tax Records: Part 3
• United States Taxation
• The Value of Using US Tax Records in Genealogy Research

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Listed below are links to tax records that are available for free online for the state:

• Allen County, Probate Records, Inheritance Tax, 1821-1935
• Allen County, Tax Records Collection
• Allen County, 1845 Delinquent Tax List
• Allen County, 1849 Delinquent Tax List
• Allen County, Duplicate Tax List of the City of Fort Wayne, A1842
• Bartholomew County, Tax List, 1843.
• Brown County, Tax Lists
• Daviess County, Tax Lists
• Dearborn County, Tax Records
• Dubois County, Tax Lists
• Floyd County, Certificates of Entry of Redemption, 1883-1940
• Franklin County, Taxpayers, 1811
• Gibson County, Tax Lists
• Hancock County, Green and Harrison Townships, Tax List,  1845
• Hancock County, Tax List, 1842
• Harrison County, Tax Lists
• Hendricks County, Tax Lists
• Hendricks County, Tax List and Property Assessment, 1842-1870
• Hendricks County, Tax List, 1841, 1844
• Indiana, Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1866
• Jefferson County, Tax Lists
• Johnson County, Tax Records
• Kosciusko County, Tax Assessment Lists, 1895
• Lake County, Miscellaneous Tax Records
• Miami County, Delinquent Tax List of 1856
• Miami County, Tax Lists
• Morgan County, Tax Lists
• Putnam County, Tax List, 1845
• Randolph County, Tax Assessments and Receipts, 1903-1915
• Randolph County, Townships and Towns : Tax Information, 1946-1947
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1899-1903
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1904-1906
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1908
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1909
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1910-1911
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1912
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1913
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1914
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1915
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1916
• Randolph County, Vouchers, Redemptions, and Other Receipts, 1917
• Randolph County, 1840 Assessment Record,  Green, Ward, Wayne & Jackson Townships
• Shelby County, Taxpayers, 1884
• Switzerland County, Tax Lists
• Union County, Assessment Record, 1842
• United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874
• Wabash Valley Tax Records
• Whitley County, Tax Lists