{"id":7852,"date":"2014-07-31T15:26:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:26:35","slug":"tax-lists-in-newspapers-for-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/tax-lists-in-newspapers-for-genealogy.html","title":{"rendered":"Tax Lists in Newspapers for Genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most genealogists use newspaper birth notices, marriage announcements, and obituaries in their family history research\u2014but there are many other good sources of family information in newspapers, such as tax lists.<\/p>\n

For example, the town of Tamworth, New Hampshire, took out this ad in the Sun<\/em> (Dover, New Hampshire), an area newspaper, in 1816. It was an advertisement to publish their local real estate tax list as a public notice that taxes were due, who the taxpayers were and how much each person owed. In addition to all that, this list describes the property owned and the buildings thereon.<\/p>\n

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Sun (Dover, New Hampshire), 10 February 1816, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Click here to see the original newspaper article: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1lDvFzx<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a great find for family historians.<\/p>\n

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Enter Last Name
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For example: we see that John Ames owned \u201c73 acres of land adjoining land of James Stephenson, and others.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is good\u2014now we know the name of one of his neighbors. This is a helpful clue that could come in handy, since it is very true that young men and women did marry the girl\/boy next door.<\/p>\n

The property description continues, stating that Ames had \u201c1 dwelling-house 21 ft. by 26 [feet], and 1 barn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amazing\u2014now we can really start to visualize life there in Tamworth.<\/p>\n

The dimensions of each home are given, and we are told if each family had a barn or other out buildings on their property.<\/p>\n