Maryland, Kent County, Voter Registration Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection includes voter registration records for Kent County, Maryland for years 1853-1898. Digital images of the originals are housed at the Kent County Register of Wills office in Chestertown, Maryland.

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What Can These Records Tell Me?
The records may include:
 * The name of voter or taxpayer
 * Place of birth
 * Race
 * Residence
 * Age
 * Time living in residence

How Do I Search the Collection?
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 * The name of the resident
 * The approximate place of residence

How Do I Analyze the Results?
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I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Use the age to calculate a birth date to find church and vital records such as birth, baptism, marriage, and death records.  Also search for immigration, military, land and probate records
 * Use the information to find additional family members in censuses
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family
 * Church Records often were kept years before government records were required and are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900

I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now?

 * Try viewing the original record. Indexes and transcriptions may not include all the data found in the original records. Remember that there may be more than one person in the records with the same name
 * If your ancestor does not have a common name, collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This list can help you identify possible relatives that can be verified by records
 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby locality in an area search
 * Try variant spellings of your ancestor’s name
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names. Try searching for these names as well
 * Search the indexes and records of Maryland, United States Genealogy

Research Helps
The following articles will help you in your research for your family in the state of Maryland.
 * Maryland Guided Research
 * Research Tips and Strategies
 * Step-by-Step Research

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