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Figuring out when our ancestors moved to a place is an important step in finding them.   Here you can look at directory listing of some our surnames in the cities they were likely to be.  Directories existed as far back as the 1700s, showing the head of the household, their occupation and the family's address.  Sometimes working children living in the same house were also listed.  These directories were used as the basis for our telephone books when technology changed.

Notes:

  • I have tried to copy the information exactly.  Therefore, the abbreviations and capitalizations are correct - in that time and place.
  • "lab" as an occupation is laborer.
  • When I searched for a surname and didn't find any instances, I put "none found" in the First Name field.
 

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