1867 Voters’ Registration List

Following the end of the Civil War, the process of registering formerly enslaved people to vote began in 1867. Three record sets documenting this process are available on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. There is an overall list of the registrants, another overall list that documented various types of information about the registrants, and an oath book that each registrant had to sign to signify their acceptance of the voting terms. 

The spreadsheet below is a transcription of the overall list containing extremely useful pieces of information for researching your ancestors. It includes:
* the voting district within Precinct 2, which comprised Liberty County
* a one-up registration number for each district
* the registration date in 1867
* voter’s name
* the corresponding oath book page
* “Color” (expressed as “white” or “col’d”
* years spent in the state, county, and precinct 
* place of birth
* naturalization information, if any

Other columns in the spreadsheet were added by the transcriber:
* a number showing the original order within the list (for sorting purposes)
* image number within the Ancestry.com record set
* link to the Ancestry.com image