City Directories - Detroit
Records: 118,918
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 Detroit, Michigan" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com/publication/71/city-directories-detroit: accessed May 19, 2022)
- Publication Title
- City Directories - Detroit
- Total Records
- 118,918
- Content Source
- Published on Fold3
- 11 Sep 2008
- Last Updated
- 30 Nov 2009
- Description
- Locate residents, organizations, and businesses in Detroit within its city directories, 1861-1923, including information on Wayne County.