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From: Dora Smith <>
Subject: Re: [PHILLY-ROOTS-L] Philadelphia Tax Records
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:32:09 -0700 (PDT)


YOu know, that had not occurred to me.
Unfortunately, I'm interested in tax records from
thsi century, and not from the 18th century. How
would I get tax records for my Moore's - given I
don't know when they got there or when they left?
What is the fee, and what is the procedure, and
where do you send?

Yours,
Dora Smith

--- MJM <> wrote:
> I've followed this list for quite awhile now,
> and have never seen a
> discussion of local tax records as a research
> tool.
>
> In all the other localities I research, the
> annual tax lists provide an
> incredible record of an ancestor's economic
> condition and whereabouts from
> year to year. Nobody escaped the county tax
> assessor. Yet there's never
> any mention of tax records as a genealogical
> resource for Philadelphia.
> Is/was Philly a tax-free zone? If so, I'm
> packing up my stuff and heading
> east.
>
> Thanks for your insight on this.
>
> Marla in CA
>
>
>
>
>


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