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City Slickers:
Your Guide to Finding Urban Ancestors

Background

PREPARATION

Learn a little bit about the city;

How-to books, articles and guides are helpful

RESOURCES

Libraries in major cities often have materials specific to local interest, if not genealogy. Some examples:

City Historical or Genealogical Societies might be helpful or have useful collections.

RECORDS

City Directories are covered on a separate page.

Newspapers are covered on a separate page.

Vital Records:

Family History.org: search the catalog (click the tab) by city name for record types of interest

Municipal records, municipal archives.

Google: cityname municipal archives; some examples: