If you do lots of work in Ohio before 1820, you may want to take advantage of the reissuing of Esther Weygandt Powell's Early Ohio Tax Records, which offers partial census substitutes for the largely missing 1800 and 1810 enumerations in that state. Seventy-five counties are covered. Details on the new book are at this Terre Haute, Indiana, newspaper site (thanks to Genealogy Miscellanea for the pointer).
If you need to consult this reference only occasionally, be sure to check for it on WorldCat after entering your zip code. It looks to me like it is fairly well distributed (at least around the Midwest) in mid-size libraries as well as the major genealogical ones -- you may live within driving distance of a copy!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Early Ohio Tax Records redux
Posted by Harold Henderson at 3:30 AM
Labels: census substitutes, Early Ohio Tax Records, Esther Weygandt Powell, Genealogy Miscellanea, Ohio, Tamie Dehler, tax records, Terre Haute Tribune-Star, WorldCat
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Harold - thanks for the tip and your informative blog. I research in early Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Minnesota so this is helpful information. Jean
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