The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 31, August 3, 2003, Article 3

RESEARCHING TAX ASSESSMENT RECORDS

  Len Augsberger writes: "There is an adjunct to city
  directories that never occurred to me until I  saw these
  books in the Baltimore Pratt library. The tax assessment
  record  books, at least for Baltimore, are arranged in a
  reverse address fashion,  allowing you to check an
  address, see who owned it, and what the property
  valuation was.  For the cases I looked at, the information
  wasn't always  100% correct (it seems that the authorities
  aren't too concerned about whose name the property is
  listed under for tax purposes, as long as they get  their
  money), but still makes a useful "go with" item if you are
  looking at city directories."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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