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*Different directories list information in different ways: | *Different directories list information in different ways: | ||
**By street, with the street names in alphabetical order | **By street, with the street names in alphabetical order | ||
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**By people's names, again alphabetically, followed by their addresses | **By people's names, again alphabetically, followed by their addresses | ||
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**Women would be included if they were private householders or business people | **Women would be included if they were private householders or business people | ||
Revision as of 16:35, 31 March 2007
Contents
What Will I find ?
County, Regional, Town, City or Trade Directories provide us with valuable detail for 19th and 20th Century research.
- Directories list people/occupations and addresses.
- They can be searched usually by location, decade and/or key word.
- Not all directories are searchable by all methods.
- In earlier directories, only notable members of the community may be listed.
- Different directories list information in different ways:
- By street, with the street names in alphabetical order
- By occupation
- By people's names, again alphabetically, followed by their addresses
- Women would be included if they were private householders or business people
The availability of directories varies from area to area, and the time span that they cover also varies. Some continued to be published until farly recent times (1970s) although directories do exist from as early as Mid 1700s
Directories can help us with 20th century research in the absence of census records or known addresses - working in conjunction with electoral registers for tracking family movements.
- Historical Directories is a good place to get an idea of what these directories are like and how to search them
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