Virginia Group Meeting, Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 10 am. Peggy Baldwin has a great presentation for us: Using Virginia’s Personal and Land Taxes to Solve Problems Tax records are one of the most available and reliable sources of information about where your Virginia ancestors lived and/or owned land. Because many early Virginia records have not survived, including deeds and census, tax records fill in the gaps. Taxes were taken every year and help show our ancestor’s migratory pattern.