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<li>[[Nevada Voting Records|Nevada]]</li> | <li>[[Nevada Voting Records|Nevada]]</li> | ||
<li>[[New Hampshire Records|New Hampshire]]</li> | <li>[[New Hampshire Voting Records|New Hampshire]]</li> | ||
<li>[[New Jersey Records|New Jersey]]</li> | <li>[[New Jersey Voting Records|New Jersey]]</li> | ||
<li>[[New Mexico Voting Records|New Mexico]]</li> | <li>[[New Mexico Voting Records|New Mexico]]</li> | ||
<li>[[New York Voting Records|New York]]</li> | <li>[[New York Voting Records|New York]]</li> | ||
<li>[[North Carolina Records|North Carolina]]</li> | <li>[[North Carolina Voting Records|North Carolina]]</li> | ||
<li>[[North Dakota Voting Records|North Dakota]]</li> | <li>[[North Dakota Voting Records|North Dakota]]</li> | ||
<li>[[Ohio Voting Records|Ohio]]</li> | <li>[[Ohio Voting Records|Ohio]]</li> | ||
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Why Use Voting Records?
- Learn the exact years an ancestor inhabited a place.
- Find naturalization information (information on when your ancestor became a citizen).
- Estimate year of immigration.
- Locate ancestor in an unindexed census (esp. state census).
- Find other family members.
Potential Contents
- Name
- Birth place
- Address
- Years living in city, county, state
- Whether naturalized, date, court
- Identifying marks
- Social Security no.
Finding Voting Records
- Place Search - FamilySearch Catalog: Search city, county, state.
Tips
- Use compiled records, but graduate to the originals. The originals list people in the order they registered, so they may list your ancestor registering with relatives who have different surnames. From these originals are extracted the compiled records, which list voters alphabetically.
- Find ancestor in all available voting lists:
- More name variations
- More addresses
- More relatives at same address
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