How do I navigate this website?

Now that you know what you can find, how do you use this?

• Look up any name in the county or master indexes - Each name in the county or master indexes is linked to the actual image that the name appears on. Click on any name and the tax list image will be loaded in your web browser. You can save this image to your hard drive and use it as a record for your genealogy files.

• Browse any tax list you want - Go to any county or city tax list web page. Go to any tax list that is linked on this web page. All pages of that tax list are listed on the tax list page. All image filenames are coded with the tax list page number. Click on any page you want to view that image. You may have to search several images before you find the particular page you want. Save any image you want for your records.

• The information found in these tax lists is varied - You may find clues about relationships. Sometimes there is notation about the father, such as "son of Edward". Sometimes the husband is mentioned, such as "widow of John". It is also possible to deduce a birth or death year from tax lists. When an individual's property suddenly turns into an estate then that individual had died during the last year. Likewise when an individual suddenly appears as a "tithable above 16 years" charged to someone else of the same last name it is highly possible that this is a son and his birth could be 16 years before the year of that tax list. This deductive reasoning requires the review of many consecutive tax list years and is beyond the scope of this website.