When looking at the tax lists check to see if they include a date the list was received. It's usually the very first column. I've been told that the county district was divided into multiple little sections and all individuals within each little section had to submit their property lists by a certain date. So if you were to got through the tax list and find everyone who submitted their list on a certain date then you could say that those individuals lived in the same proximity.
I use this method to ascertain if individuals with the same surname are possibly related to each other since family had a tendency to live close to each other, especially children next to parents. It offers clues that can be used when no other clues can be found. This also works for possible in-laws.
Steve and Bunny Binns
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Carole D. Bryant <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> I've heard it said that using personal property tax lists is NOT a good
> source for determining the neighbors of any particular tax-payer. The
> reason
> given was that personal property taxes weren't collected by going door to
> door, as a census-taker would have done, but were submitted by mail.
>
> Yet, many folks use the personal property tax lists as they would a census,
> assuming family relationships according to who else was listed on the same
> page.
>
> So, which is correct? OR, did the method of vary for different years? If
> the latter is the case, which years can be used like a census?
>
> THANKS !
> Carole D. Bryant
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