The Kentucky Library and Museum (KLM) holdings include many city and telephone directories. There are similarities between the two and if used skillfully, they can reveal a great deal of personal and family history information such as occupational data, relationships, home ownership and locations. They also can help with identifying persons with the same names or initials. City directories in particular list items such as asylums, cemeteries, fraternal organizations, newspapers, railroads and schools. They also have city maps with defined boundaries and can, through the years, include the changes of street names. Even in the addenda, there is pertinent information that was “too late for insertion” or and in some select directories, there were lists of deaths in an epidemic year. City directories were often compiled through door-to-door surveys and so had the benefit of verified information from the householder. The library has city directories from Bowling Green starting in the late 1880s and telephone directories starting in the 1920s.
Finding Family in City and Telephone Directories
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yes telephone directories one of the best tool to search friends and family. very old but still very effective way to search relatives.
this is yes,very old but still very effective way to search relatives.
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It should be considered at a level of an artifact, for one reason it contains the names and address of people during that time and it will greatly help build up a sense of heritage.
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