If you’ve baked all the bread you need for a week or two and have completed all the jigsaw puzzles you could find in your house, you may be interested in helping the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County in Ontario.
The archives has scanned the 1871 Hastings County assessment roll, and they need transcribers to help make the names in it available to the public.
Transcribing the information in these records will provide a picture of the way Hastings County had been settled by 1871, and expands on the information available from the national census which was taken in the same year.
Each municipality in the county of Hastings sent a copy of its assessment roll to the county authorities. The rolls list each occupier of lands, with details of the property, its value, and additional information such as the occupation of the individual, how many people were in their household and even how many sheep, horses and cattle they owned.
Learn more about how to transcribe from home on the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County website.
