Address, business and phone directories may be an invaluable tool in genealogy research. It can help you locate the place where your ancestors resided at a certain point in time. Not only though. Very often the directories inform on individual’s profession and women’s maiden names.
Genealogy indexer
Genealogy indexer www.genealogyindexer.org is a powerful search engine. It can perform a surname search in more than 3000 historical directories, mostly from Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland, over 300 yizkor books (memorials to Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust), 32,000 pages of military lists (officers, casualties, etc., mostly from the Russian Empire and Poland), 45,000 pages of community and personal histories, and 24,000 pages of Polish secondary school annual reports and other school sources.
The website is in English and is easy to use.
Once the results list is ready you are only one click away from a corresponding scanned page.
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