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 ===Business and other types of directories===
-Business and city directories are useful for finding where your ancestors lived, but they are also useful to determine the type of business they were engaged in. Most of the larger cities had formal, commercially published city directories that served the same function as the later telephone directories. Look for copies of the directories in city, county and state public libraries as well as historical societies and state archives.
+Business and city directories are useful for finding where your ancestors lived, but they are also useful to determine the type of business they were engaged in. Most of the larger cities had formal, commercially published city directories that served the same function as the later telephone directories. Look for copies of the directories in city, county and state public libraries as well as historical societies and state archives. See the following article:
+[[United States Directories]]
 Many city directories also being digitized online. Here are some resources:
 *[http://www.uscitydirectories.com/ City Directories of the United States of America]
+*[http://home.ancestry.com/ Ancestry.com] $
+*[https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite/ Online Historical Directories Website]
 ===Utility records===