Video Tutorial: Researching City Directories Using the Internet Archive

Kenneth R. Marks of The Ancestor Hunt website has a very good tutorial on researching city directories at the Internet Archive. It is posted at YouTube and is free to access:

To watch a bigger (screen-wise) version of this video, click on the "play" button above, then click on the YouTube icon that will appear at the bottom of the video. This will take you to the YouTube site to see a larger screen.

Ken also has a number of tutorials on newspaper research on his site.

City Directories Online Course

Family Tree University, a part of Family Tree Magazine, is offering an online course on city directories, called Exploring City Directories: How to Trace Your Family in Yesterday's Yellow Pages. You can read more about it, as well as sign up for it through Genealogy Insider, the blog for Family Tree Magazine.