Record type
Tax rolls — where to find them free
Who owned or occupied what, assessed year by year — a census substitute where the census is lost.
Public archives Provara searches for tax rolls
live Open Archives (207 archives: Netherlands, Belgium, France, Suriname + US indexes)
Open Archieven (Coret Genealogie) · NL/BE/FR/SR
Civil registration (birth, marriage, death), church books, population registers, notarial and tax rolls, militia — 207 archives
Licence: CC0 (person data); scans excluded · terms read 2026-09-06
How to ask
In Provara, ask Provara whether a tax roll places an ancestor in a town. With web search on, it searches this archive in one call, reads the best hits, and proposes only what the record it read supports — with the record beside the claim.
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Every licence on these pages was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. Provara proposes only what a record it has read supports, shows the record beside the claim, and marks anything unsourced as a hypothesis. Nothing on this page states a fact about any person.