The following is an announcement written by the folks at MyHeritage:
Over 5 million individuals have been added to TheGenealogist’s Residential and Trade Directories Collection, helping you discover your ancestors, their addresses, and their occupations back to 1744.
The new records cover England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Channel Islands, along with some from as far afield as America, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, thus adding an international flavour to this release.
Dating from 1744 to 1899, the directories in this addition to TheGenealogist are a useful finding aid for ancestors’ names, addresses, and occupations and can offer contemporary details of where your past family had lived.
If a forebear had a business, then the commercial listings in the directory could help find where an ancestor may have worked.
Early Directories can also be useful for finding the addresses of residents before the census, reveal the railways that may have served the area and to find other communications links to nearby towns. With this information, those who may have ‘lost’ an ancestor may make an educated guess of where a person may have moved to live in the past.
These directory publications can also be a great complement to a census record, as the topographical information can flesh out an ancestor’s area for the researcher.
In the case of a head of the household, we may be able to find an address different from that recorded in other records such as the decennial census. This may help fill in the gaps of where a stray ancestor moved to between the census counts.
Complete Access for Under £10 a Month!
To celebrate this latest release, TheGenealogist is offering its four-month Diamond package for just £39.95 – that’s less than £10 a month!
To find out more and claim the offer, visit: https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/MGBDIR124
This offer expires at the end of 9th February 2024.
Read TheGenealogist’s article: An important resource in tracing ancestors and the man behind the popular Kelly’s Directories.
https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2012/an-introduction-to-directories-43/
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