Wednesday, 18 October 2006  Skillbuilders - City Directories
Looking to upgrade your genealogy skills? There's a load of good
advice in a series of articles online from the US Board for
Certification of Genealogists. Some of the advice is US-
specific: those of us in Canada the UK and elsewhere will have
to adapt to our situation. Much of it is short and to the point.
Kathleen W Hinkley has an article on Analysing City Directories.
She shows an example of different people with the same last name
being found at an address in different years indicating family
connections that would not have been apparent from a single
directory. If you are have access to runs of city directories
for a location of interest take the time to go systematically
through the directories. Where did people live? Did they change
the way the name was spelt, or the forename presented? How did
the description of the occupation change?