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CITY
DIRECTORIES are a great resource to genealogists. People
occasionally get these confused with CITY TELEPHONE
DIRECTORIES -- which these are not. The early CITY
DIRECTORIES in the US started in the 1700's and included the
person's name, occupation and address. The 1963 Shawano
City Directory includes a little more... wife's name &
occupation, if there were children under 18 years old in the
household, they are listed with their ages and the very last
four digit numbers in the entry is the PHONE number... the
area code 715 and the prefix 526 was understood.
What makes this valuable? Not
only does it list the residence & occupations, it lists the
FAMILY STRUCTURE UNDER 18 -- the last "published census" is
1930, so this is an early glimpse at the family unit.
NOTE: When
designing this page, the original plan was to list the actual
pages and just scan them in as jpegs and move onto the next Shawano
GenWeb Project. BUT, the down-side of scanning the page
in is that the names will not show up in our SEARCH ENGINE as
the page is seen as a picture, not as text. So, I've
scanned the pages in and used a computer program to "read" the
entries -- the OCR program is not always 100% accurate so I
have listed the actual page scan first and the text in the
lines below it. If you find an entry that you want to
see the actual page for the EXACT CORRECT ENTRY, just scroll UP to the
PAGE LINK and click on it.
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