Steve Harris sent this update.
CGS board member and consulting genealogist Steve Harris recently added 1,000 more city directories to the 6,000 city and telephone directories already in his research library. Included are 650 California directories from all over the state.
Update: These city and telephone directories are now incorporated into our main library. See post from May 2015 for current details on the collection.
Ranging from the 1860s to the 1970s, the directories have numerous applications to genealogy, including tracking individuals and families through time and finding addresses for census look-ups.
The Library of Congress system is used to catalog the collection. A complete listing of Steve’s holdings was compiled by CGS volunteer Nancy Servin. The list follows the shelf sequence: by region of country, then statewide directories, countywide directories, and finally directories for specific cities.
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2008