Archive for the 'City Directories' Category

Digital United States City Directories Online at Ancestry.com

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

I happen to be a great fan of city directories. Granted, they usually don’t include vital records, but they do a great job of placing our ancestors in a specific place at a specific time.
Ancestry.com has the largest collection of digitized city directories available online. However, I have found it difficult to locate just the […]

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Digitized British City Directories at Ancestry.com

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Ancestry.com has posted many city and county directories for England and Wales - all in digital format, allowing the researcher to see the orginal pages, not just an index or abstract. Since I found it difficult to locate specific digital directories within Ancestry, I compiled this portal of ONLY DIGITAL BRITISH CITY, & PHONE DIRECTORIES […]

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