City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. and Canada and are what I consider another important (and underutilized) set of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research.
So, what kinds of directories are available to the researcher? Naturally city and business directories, but also telephone directories, and alumni, farm, lodge, rural, and social directories.
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I have put together a Quick Reference Guide that has 33 pieces of information that you can find in city directories.
To obtain the one-page Quicksheet pdf for easy reference, you can download it by clicking on the Download button:
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