City Directories - Boston
Records: 147,699
City directories give us regular and timely snapshots of a community. They list residents and businesses within a city or town, often including suburbs. The alphabetical listings provide clues to researchers about employment, residence, and age of citizens. Because they are published frequently, more often than every ten years like the census, directories help us verify residences and businesses on a chronological scale.
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"City Directories for Boston, Massachusetts" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com/publication/15/city-directories-boston: accessed June 29, 2022)
- Publication Title
- City Directories - Boston
- Total Records
- 147,699
- Content Source
- Published on Fold3
- 15 May 2008
- Last Updated
- 08 Sep 2008
- Description
- Locate residents, organizations, and businesses in Boston, within selected years from 1789 to 1818, and most years from 1820 to 1926.