My Trails into the Past

It's  Saturday Night  - time for more  Genealogy Fun! Our mission this week is to: 1) What is your favorite record type or resource?  Not a website, but a type of record - e.g., census, cemetery, land, etc.  Why? 2) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Be sure to leave a link with your answers in a comment. Here's mine: My favorite source for genealogy research is the city directory. A city directory helps fill in our ancestor’s residence and occupation facts between census years. We can use it to narrow down a move into or out of a particular place. In later census, where the wife’s name is in parenthesis, we can learn about a new marriage. When the wife becomes a widow, she is usually listed as the head of household with the words widow of “husband name.” Julia Hork, widow of John Hork, Hamilton, MT directory Too many people only look at the residence information but ignore the rest of ...