Another solutioln to this problem is to watch for old copies of the PA Archives. They were printed on poor quality paper so have not held up well, Libraries sell them off as not worth having rebound, These old copies are often available for about $5 in used book stores. I have found copies for all the counties that I am researching. Never paid more than $8.00. Of course, these copies seldom have covers and reading them leaves lots of little pieces of paper scattered everywhere, but the essential information is still the same, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Wevodau" <wevo@verizon.net> To: <pafrankl@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:48 PM Subject: [PAFRANKL] Early Tax Lists > > As to the question of tax lists from the Pennsylvania Archives on > Footnote.com..... > I enjoy Footnote as a subscriber; however, their indexes and search > system > need vast improvement. > I would recommend accessing these records via Google Books (under more > options on the Google toolbar). > Google is scanning vast numbers of books from various libraries. All of > the > Pennsylvania Archives series books have been scanned. If you have a > Google > Account, then you can add the books to your virtual library. The search > engine is superior. You can quickly link to and explore each township. > Search for "Franklin County, Pennsylvania" or any other target area, and > you > might be surprised what books are freely available. Nearly every > genealogy > book I desire published pre-1920 is available, including most county > histories with biographies. > No need to transcribe these records. Most books have been OCR'd and you > can > simply switch to plain text format and then copy and paste. > Also, if you haven't, check out pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch > So many materials, once difficult to access, freely available. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message