I am trying to see who else lived in this house with him, Thank you so much for your time and any help you might be able to give us.
Regards Patti Woods Crick gabbycrick aol. You just have to look at each page and some advertisements refer to the year that the publication is for. Just a tip, but it has helped me a few times. Your email address will not be published. In order to find the entry you are interested in, you may have to browse the volume.
A free PDF reader is available from Adobe. The file size of each directory is listed and large files may take several minutes to load even with a fast connection. If you have trouble opening the files, you may want to download them. You can right-click on the link and select "Save link as More current directories as well as the Haines Akron City and Suburban Criss-Cross Directories from to the present and Akron area telephone directories from to the present early years are incomplete are also available in Special Collections.
Historic City Directories City Directories can be excellent sources of information about Akron and surrounding areas. Many of the directories can be browsed on the right. For example; U. City Directories, Tufts Boston City Directories. HathiTrust In Advanced Catalog search try:. Internet Archive. Digital Public Library of America.
They are also useful for: Searching censuses by address: an address found in a city directory can be used to generate an Enumeration District number, enabling a researcher to search a census by address. Clusters of names and addresses in a city directory can be used to identify addresses in censuses pre, when no address was listed. Searching years between censuses: New York is often the first port of call for migrants, who may live only briefly in the city. Their brief stay might be recorded in a city directory, but not in a census.
Acting as a census substitute: the United States Federal census was mostly lost in a fire in the s: city directories may be the only record of a person in New York in the years between and Identifying a date of death: an approximate date of death might be ascertained by comparative study of city directories, where, for instance, a male ancestor disappears from the directories, and the name of his widow appears instead.
Who else lived at an address: genealogists can discover who an individual's neighbors were, and plot those relationships. Verify other documents, e. Often in genealogy information in one document gains further credibility when confirmed by information in another. If a researcher knows where an individual was living, they can use that information to search for a nearby house of worship, for records of baptism, marriage, or burial, for instance.
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