Record type
City and trade directories — where to find them free
A household's address and occupation, year by year, between censuses.
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Digitised books: county and town histories, city directories, yearbooks, genealogies, church histories
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In Provara, ask Provara where a family lived in the years between censuses. With web search on, it searches this archive in one call, reads the best hits, and proposes only what the record it read supports — with the record beside the claim.
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