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==Online Resources== | |||
*[http://www.fold3.com/documents.php?bc=116 Fold3 Minnesota City Directories] | *[http://www.fold3.com/documents.php?bc=116 Fold3 Minnesota City Directories] | ||
*[https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite/Home/usa/mn Minnesota Online Historical Directories] - listed by county | *[https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite/Home/usa/mn Minnesota Online Historical Directories] - listed by county | ||
== History == | |||
Directories have been published for various Illinois cities and counties since the 1830s, though they may not exist for every year. Some directories focus on the businesses or occupations of an area, while others include heads of households, landowners, and voters. | Directories have been published for various Illinois cities and counties since the 1830s, though they may not exist for every year. Some directories focus on the businesses or occupations of an area, while others include heads of households, landowners, and voters. | ||
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Directories have other clues that may require careful study to discover. For example, people in similar or related occupations were often relatives, in-laws, or friends. A year-by-year study of directories may reveal the movements of ancestors and relatives within the city and sometimes to or from other cities. | Directories have other clues that may require careful study to discover. For example, people in similar or related occupations were often relatives, in-laws, or friends. A year-by-year study of directories may reveal the movements of ancestors and relatives within the city and sometimes to or from other cities. | ||
Directories are alphabetical lists of names and addresses. City directories can help you learn where an ancestor lived. The person's occupation is frequently given. Often the home address and the business address are both mentioned. When a husband has died, the widow is often listed as "widow of . . . ." Directories can sometimes help when you search census records to determine in which ward the family lived for a particular time in a big city. Directories sometimes have maps and addresses of churches, cemeteries, courthouses, and other important locations. | |||
Examples of directories that may be found in an archive are: city directories, telephone directories, church directories, occupational directories, farmers directories, or rosters of society members. | Examples of directories that may be found in an archive are: city directories, telephone directories, church directories, occupational directories, farmers directories, or rosters of society members. | ||
==Resources for Minnesota Directories== | |||
===Libraries and Archives=== | ===Libraries and Archives=== | ||
The Family History Library and the Minnesota Historical Society Library have incomplete collections of directories from throughout Minnesota. Many were published as county directories, listing inhabitants of major towns in the county. Rural directories collected information on farmers, dairymen, and other rural residents. | |||
===Directories Online=== | ===Directories Online=== | ||
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|beginning with Family History Library {{FHL|1377061|film|disp=microfilm 1377061}} <br> | |beginning with Family History Library {{FHL|1377061|film|disp=microfilm 1377061}} <br> | ||
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Polk, R.L. and Company. ''Northwestern Gazetteer, Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana Gazetteer and Business Directory''. St. Paul, Minnesota: Polk, 1914. (Family History Library {{FHL|142321|title-id|disp=microfilm 1321220-21}}.) The first part of the directory covers Minnesota and lists residences of people, often with their occupation. It also serves as a gazetteer for the time. It lists population, churches and commercial buildings, newspapers, and where land was located and the price for which it was selling. | |||
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:To find directories, consult the [[FamilySearch Catalog Place Search|Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog]] under: | |||
:MINNESOTA, [COUNTY] | ::: MINNESOTA, [COUNTY] — DIRECTORIES | ||
:MINNESOTA, [COUNTY], [ | ::: MINNESOTA, [COUNTY], [TOWN] — DIRECTORIES | ||
===Websites=== | ===Websites=== | ||