- 1790 and 1800 County Tax Lists of Virginia Online Steve and Bunny Binns have a massive online project underway that should benefit many genealogists researching ancestors in Virginia in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Quoting from their Web site: Everyone knows that the Federal Census Schedules are an excellent source of genealogical information. Unfortunately the Virginia Censuses for 1790 and 1800 were destroyed by fire and can never be replaced. But the early tax records of the Virginian counties still survive and list all individuals charged with a tax. They also contain names of young men who were tithable, or taxable, much like a male dependent of a household, and names of recently deceased individuals whose property was still in estate. There are many clues in tax lists that suggest family relationships that cannot be found in the early censuses. Therefore these tax lists can be used as an alternative census for the burned Federal Censuses of Virginia for 1790 and 1800. Here you will find FREE online image files and indexes of the Land Tax lists and Personal Property Tax lists for each of the individual counties and cities where indicated in the table below. The years of "1790" and "1800" are considered an approximate year. In some cases the actual year 1790 or 1800 tax list was very hard to read on the microfilm so we went up or down a couple of years to find better quality images. Each list will be indexed as time permits. We are constantly gathering tax lists and will post updates as needed. If you do not find your particular tax list today it may be here tomorrow. Steve and Bunny photocopy each tax list and scan it into their computer. They resize these images to minimize the file size and upload these images to a Web site. Then they index each list with every name they can decipher. The results are available to you today at no charge. This is a "work in progress" as Steve and Bunny are still producing the images. Here is what they have online at this time: * 32 counties * 133 tax lists * 131 tax lists are indexed * 1,139 tax list pages as jpeg images for "1790" * 1,263 tax list pages as jpeg images for "1800" * 32,515 names in our "1790" census Master Index * 37,064 names in our "1800" census Master Index They are currently working on Caroline County and King William County and hope to add at least 3 more counties next month. These are from Dick Eastman's column of March 3. This is a great resource produced by two dedicated genealogists. You can view the 1790 and 1800 County Tax Lists of Virginia at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ysbinns/vataxlists/index.htm