Thanks Andrea, for responding. I was hoping someone here might have had some experience
with the tax records for this county. It's difficult trying to track down records
from out-of-state and even if you think you've found them, when it comes to tax
records you can't really be sure of what's available unless you're seeing them
in person. Like you mentioned, there were various items that may or may not fall into a
general personal property tax depending upon the location. It would be great to have a
general guide to Indiana tax records to help make heads or tails of what's available
and where. But that's wishful thinking.
I know what you mean about having trouble gaining access to some records. Sometimes it
just depends on the day and/or who you're talking to, other times if you show up with
your own archival gloves and a membership card to a genealogical/historical society, any
society, they give you access to everything. It's crazy. Elizabeth Shown Mills, the
author of Evidence Explained and numerous other gene. books told a story in one of her
lectures about how she had to sit there and chat about college football to a county judge
for over an hour just so that he would find her to be an acceptable person to allow access
to the records she needed.
Nikki LaRue
--- On Tue, 5/26/09, Andrea <andrea.genealogy(a)pceaze.com> wrote:
From: Andrea <andrea.genealogy(a)pceaze.com>
Subject: [INRANDOL] tax lists?
To: inrandol(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 4:27 PM
Nikki, there are a few items at the
museum as far as tax returns and such,
why don't you e-mail and see what years are covered
there. Other old tax
items were stored at the county infirmary at least until it
was closed down
last year. I could not get anyone from the courthouse
to take there to let
me look for a business that supposed to of been opened in
1928. I don't
know where they are stored now, and according to those in
power at the
courthouse you have to be accompanied by the
custodian/grounds keeper, and
he's far too busy mowing to mess with me.
But the museum just might have something. They use to
tax a person for
their livestock to help pay for roads and ditches in the
earliest of days, I
know that there is at least one of those books there, but I
don't remember
what year.
Go through the website and e-mail the museum. (Not
the webmaster, that's
me)
www.randolphcountyindianahistoricalsociety.org
Andrea
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