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City Directory Resources

Although there are a number of ways to use city directories, they are perhaps most frequently used in conjunction with census records to track the location of our ancestors over time. These sites tell you how to extract even more valuable information from city directories or allow you to search databases of city directories available online:

• Rootsweb's Guide - City Directories: Windows on the Past by Julia M. Case, Myra Vanderpool Gormley and Rhonda McClure:
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson20.htm



• Kathleen Hinckley's article for the Board for Certification of Genealogists' on a variety of techniques for analyzing city directories:
  http://www.bcgcertification.org/skbld965.html



• Ancestry.com's searchable, online city directories:
  http://ancestry.com/search/rectype/directories/main.htm



• City Directories of the United States, Genealogical Archives Online - fee-based, searchable database as well as several useful articles on city directories:
  http://www.galegroup.com/psm/

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