United States Voting Records

Online Voting Records
The following places have voting records:
 * FamilySearch Historical Records
 * Ancestry.com ($)
 * FamilySearch Catalog - Place Search: Search city, county, state.

Why Use Voting Records
Voting records can be useful, because they can help you achieve the following:
 * 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
Voting records often contain the following information:
 * Name
 * Birth place
 * Address
 * Years living in city, county, state
 * Whether naturalized, date, court
 * Identifying marks
 * Social Security no.

Finding Voting Records
Most voting records are kept at local and state level. To see what voting records are available for your locality visit your state's voting records page, which are linked below.

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