General Resource Sites

• Ancestry.com - The Power of the Vote: Treasures in Voter Registration Records 
  Article by Juliana Smith.
• Family Tree Connection - Election Records 
  Search the listings for free, view full details with a fee-based subscription.

Locality Specific

• 1855 Kansas Census - Index of Voters 
• An 1858 Fort Bridger Poll Book 
  Voter list for area now Fort Bridger, Uinta County, WY; then Green River County, Utah territory.
• 1865 Poll Tax 
  Multnomah County Poll tax receipts. An incomplete list of Poll tax receipts, all dated 16 May 1865.
• 1867 Great Register Nevada County-MeadowLake/Donner Lake-1867  ~ California
• 1872 Foreign-Born Voters of California 
• 1890 Great Register of Voters, Sonoma County, California 
• 1902-1903 Grayson County, Virginia Voter Registration List 
• 1907 Cleveland Voter Registration Index  ~ Ohio
  Online searchable database from the Western Reserve Historical Society.
• 1914 Electoral Register  ~ Longford, Kent, England
• 192.com - People Finder 
  Search over 200 million names and addresses from the 2002 to 2007 official UK Electoral Registers. Powerful search options and integration with Directory Enquiries.
• African American Voters in Alexandria, 1902-1954 
  Database from the Alexandria Library, Virginia.
• Ancestry.com - Search Chicago Voter Registration, 1888 
  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Original source: Illinois State Archives microfilm (25 rolls).
• Ancestry.com - Search Chicago Voter Registration, 1892 
  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Original source: Illinois State Archives microfilm (25 rolls).
• Ancestry.com - Search Kansas Voter Registration Lists, 1854-56 
  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Original source: Kansas Territorial Government. Territorial Census of 1855 and 1856. Leavenworth, KS, USA: Kansas Territory, 1856.
• Ancestry.com - Search Leavenworth, Kansas Voter Registration, 1859 
  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Original source: Leavenworth Voters, 1859.
• B.C. Voters List 1875 
  From the Sessional Papers of the British Columbia Government, 1876; extracted by Hugh Armstrong.
• B.C. Voters 1898 
  From the Sessional Papers of the British Columbia Government, 1899; extracted by Hugh Armstrong.
• Beyond the Index--Michael John Neill's Articles in the Ancestry Daily News 
  • Chicago Voter Registrations from 1888 
    Discusses these records, how to access them and how to use them.
• Brooklyn Voters 
  Registered voters in Bath Beach and Bensonhurst, as printed in a newspaper dated November 1, 1890.
• Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, Voter Registration List, 1913 
  Online transcription.
• California's Great Registers 
  Article by J. Carlyle Parker.
• Denver Public Library: Western History Genealogy: Research Tools - Colorado 1861 Territorial Election 
  • Introduction 
  • Voters 
• Electoral Lists, Toowoomba & District, 1899-1900 
  A list of persons who applied for registration as voters in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia during the years, 1899-1900.
• Escambia County 1908 Voter List  ~ Florida
• Family Search Record Search 
  Millions of indexed records and images of records. Join volunteers around the world who are helping to make more free records available online through FamilySearch Indexing.
  • England, Cheshire, Register of Electors 1842-1900 
    A list of those who are eligible to vote in local and county elections.
• Granite County, MT - Voter Registration Lists 
• Great Register of El Dorado County - 1892  ~ California
• Inyo County Great Register - Death Valley Precinct 1918  ~ California
• Inyo County Great Register - Greenwater Precinct 1908  ~ California
• Inyo County Great Register - Ryan Precinct 1908  ~ California
• Inyo County Great Register - Ryan Precinct 1910  ~ California
• Inyo County Great Register - Ryan Precinct 1914  ~ California
• Inyo County Great Register - Ryan Precinct 1916  ~ California
• Inyo County Great Register - Ryan Precinct 1918  ~ California
• Jury List Index, Seneca County, NY 
• Kosciusko County, IN 1922 Voters Registration Index  ~ Indiana
• Lauderdale Co part of the MSGenWeb - 1836 Tax List  ~ Mississippi
• Lee County Public Records, Voters Registration  ~ Florida
• Leeds Absent Voters List 1914-18 War  ~ England
  A database of 50,000 names compiled from the Leeds Absent Voters List of the Leeds Electoral Roll 1918/19 of soldiers, sailors and airmen from Leeds serving in the armed forces.
• List of Voters for Freshford in 1843  ~ Somerset, England
• List of Voters for Freshford in 1850  ~ Somerset, England
• Longmont Voter Registration Records 1898-1919  ~ Colorado
  Online transcription from the Longmont Genealogical Society.
• List of the Polls at the Precinct in District No. 15, Sumner County, Tennessee - 1848 
• Marin County Great Register of 1880  ~ California
• NOPL Genealogy Guide - Voter Registration Records  ~ New Orleans, Louisiana
  Information on holdings from the New Orleans Public Library.
• Oconto Voters Registration List 1866 West Ward  ~ Oconto County, Wisconsin
• Poll Lists & Voting Index, Navarro County, Texas 
• Portuguese Voters of 1872 in California 
• Presidential Electors in Maryland, 1789-1980 
  Historical List, Maryland State Archives.
• Primary Poll Book: 1930 - 1939 
  District No. 1, Cockrum Precinct, DeSoto County, Mississippi.
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 
  • Freeholder's Records 
    Lists of people entitled to vote, or of people who voted, at elections. A freeholder was a man who owned his land outright (in fee) or who held it by lease which could be for one or more lives (for example, his own life or for the lives of other people named in the lease).
    • Search 
      Includes surname & forename as well as address and a scanned image of the printed list where the name appears.
• Registered Voters in Hamilton County, 1937  ~ Texas
• Register of Electors (Current)  ~ Waterford, Ireland
  Online searchable database.
• Saline County, Arkansas Tax Records 
  Including poll tax lists for 1907, 1911, 1926.
• San Francisco Genealogy - Great Registers 
  LDS film numbers and other information.
• Shasta Co., CA 1894 Great Register  ~ California
• Tarrant County TXGenWeb - 1867 Voters List 
• Tulare County Great Register Index  ~ California
  Includes alphabetical transcriptions of the Great Registers of 1869, 1890 & 1898.
• Voters' Registration: 1867  ~ Texas
  Information on records held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
• Voter Registration List, Yell County, Arkansas, 1872 
• Voter Registration Records Database Search  ~ Texas
  Online searchable database of current voter registration information for Harris County.
• Voting Lists 1920s - Voter Lists of Shelby County  ~ Texas
• Voting Records, West Carroll Parish, LA  ~ Louisiana
• Voter Rolls  ~ Pass Christian, Mississippi

Publications, Software & Supplies

• Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore 
  A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.

• Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Voters 
  The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
  • Rhode Island Freemen, 1747-1755 : A Census of Registered Voters 
    A book by Bruce C. MacGunnigle.
  • Vancouver Voters, 1886 : A Biographical Dictionary 
    A book by Peter S. N. Claydon.
• California 1890 Great Register of Voters 
  Book available for sale from HeritageQuest.
• Great Registers of California 
  Book review.
• San Francisco 1890 Great Register of Voters 
  Book available for sale from HeritageQuest.

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