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Public Library Records: City Directories

These provide a wealth of information for those who have a city location, occupation of birth parents and/or grandparents (information about maternal grandparents is especially important if birth parents were unmarried), or possibly last names. Directories list all employed people or college students in a household, their professions, employers (for some years), whether they were head of household or resident, whether they owned or rented, address and phone number. Directories can be found at public libraries.

 

http://www.omnitrace.com/birth-family.html