Tax Lists

Yesterday, I spent a good deal of time playing with Danish Tax Records for Aalborghus Amt.  I learned the basics about Danish Tax Records from the following article:  http://www.progenealogists.com/denmark/articles/danadv.htm  Mr. Horlacher provides a great overview of the basics of tax record research.  I have had a blast using the tax records.  They present a great puzzle to solve.

I have been looking at records for Hjørring/Thisted/Ålborg.  The three records that cover the time period I need are the Kontributionsregnskaber, Ekstraskatteregnskaber, and Konsumtions- familie og folkeskatsregnskaber. 

The Kontributionsregnskaber is mostly statistical information but there are some lists included.  Here is an example from 1742 for Jetsmark, Hjørring, Denmark. 

This is the title of the tax list added by an archivist.

This “list” is has many parts.  Several are letters from the officials.  However I did luck out with this part:

This is the sub-title within the tax list.

It was a small list of the major tax payers.  While this list is certainly not a list of everybody in the parish, it is at least a list of some people.  There is very little genealogical information given here but sometimes this may be the only record source available for your area in a particular time.

Here we see Jetsmark Sogn.  The first farm/community mentioned is Kaasbye.

Those listed are:
Olluf Thomasen and Niels Nielsen
Jesper Pedersen
Anders Andersen
Poul Jensen
Mikkel Christensen