Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Hampshire County,
Vicki Bidinger Horton · 2009
62/100
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This is exactly what it says it is: a meticulous alphabetical transcription of tax lists for a narrow county over fourteen years, with more than twenty thousand entries carefully indexed. For a genealogist tracing Hampshire County ancestry, it is a genuinely useful census substitute from a credible publisher. For anyone else, it is simply not a book — it is a reference tool for a very specific search.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance72
craft60
originality55
accuracy85
hype75
age-fit50
human-eye45
Penny’s verdict62
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