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Tips for Using City Directories for Genealogy Research

March 13, 2020 by Legacy Tree Genealogists 1 Comment

city directories

The R.L. Polk company, though not the earliest company to do so, published their first city directory in the 1870s, as a way to centralize community information.  They employed sales associates and census enumerators to go door to door to collect information, sell advertising and make sales for their new directories. These handy guides were the quitessential Google search of their day--the go-to resource for finding information. These same directories can be an important resource for genealogy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Genealogy Records and Resources, United States Tagged With: city directories, family history, genealogy, genealogy resources

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