Iceland Taxation
Tax Registers (Manntalsbækur)
Research use: Records identify individuals to localities.
Record type: Records of persons who paid taxes for each county [sýsla].
Time period: The earliest records date from 1696; most preserved records date from the early 1700s to present.
Contents: Names of persons paying taxes, residences, amount of tax paid.
Location: Early records are at the National Archives; records of 1800s and later are at local county offices [sýslumaður].
Percentage in FamilySearch Library: 100% of the records at the National Archives as of 1953, representing 35% of the counties.
Population coverage: Less than 10%.
Reliability: Good.
Accessibility: Records are accessible on microfilm through the FamilySearch Library for several counties. Records are also accessible through on-site research or through a researcher.[1]
References
- ↑ The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Iceland,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1988-1997.