City Directories - Typical Features:
- Residences & Businesses - Alphabetical Listings ♦ Head of Household, Spouse, Adult Children, Roomers ♦ Occupations, Employer's name ♦ Numerical Telephone Numbers (the early form of "Caller I.D.") ♦ Yellow Pages, Classified Buyer’s Guide, Alphabetical by business type ♦ Street Guide
Phone Directories - Typical Features:
- White Pages – Alphabetical Business and Residences ♦ Selected occupations are sometimes listed, for example: Doctor, Lawyer, Real Estate, Insurance Agent
- NOTE: Reverse Telephone & Address Indexes are not always present in old phone books, however you may use the Adobe® Reader® search tool to find any individual, even by their first name, living on a certain street, or with the same telephone number, etc.
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Genealogists, Searchers, and Investigators are the modern day Historians, and have long known the wealth of information found in old City Directories and Phone Books to find clues and links to persons and places of a past time period. Accessing the information in these directories used to involve trips or letters to the libraries, but now SpyralSearch has made it possible to do research in your own home or office by having the old telephone directory information on CDs or online digital downloads. Our collection of thousands of old business directory listings, residential and local community directories allow you to search for a specific person, location or company from the past. Our archive of local listings are fully searchable, making it easy to identify the data you need.
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