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function DbInfoMiniDescription() { document.write('Directories listing over 50,800 names for Newburgh, New York from 1889 to 1892'); }
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function DbInfoDescription() { document.write('Located in southeastern New York, the city of Newburgh is part of Orange County. This database is a transcription of city directories originally published in 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892. In addition to providing the resident\'s name, it provides their address and occupational information. It includes over 50,800 names, mostly heads of households. For the researcher of ancestors from southeastern New York, this can be an extremely valuable collection.<p>City directories are primarily useful for locating people in a particular place and time. They can tell you generally where an ancestor lived and give an exact location for census years. They are also useful for linkage with sources other than censuses.</p><p>There are usually several parts to a city directory. The section of most interest to the genealogist, of course, is the alphabetical listing of names, for it is there that you may find your ancestor.</p><p>Whenever you use a directory, however, it is important to refer to the page showing abbreviations used in the alphabetical section of the directory, usually following the name in each entry. Some abbreviations are quite common, such as <I>h</I> for home or <I>r</I>, indicating residence. There may even be a subtle distinction between <I>r</I> for residents who are related to the homeowner and <I>b</I> for boarders who are not related.</p><p>Some city directories list adult children who lived with their parents but were working or going to school. Look for persons of the same surname residing at the same address. If analyzed and interpreted properly, these annual directories can tell you (by implication) which children belong to which household, when they married and started families of their own, and when they established themselves in business. In cases where specific occupation is given, you can search records pertinent to that occupation.</p><p>Once an ancestor has been found in a city directory, there are several ways the information can be used to gain access to, or link with, such sources as censuses, death and probate records, church records, naturalization records, and land records.</p><p>Taken from <I>Chapter 11: Research in Directories, The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy</I> by Gordon Lewis Remington; edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1997).</p>'); }
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function DbInfoSourceInfo() { document.write('<DIV class="p_sourceTxtDiv">Ancestry.com. <i>Newburgh, New York Directories, 1889-92</i> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: <p><li><i>Newburgh, NY, 1889.</i> Newburgh, NY: L. P. Waite &amp; Co., 1889.</p><p><li><i>Newburgh, NY, 1890.</i> Newburgh, NY: L. P. Waite &amp; Co., 1890.</p><p><li><i>Newburgh, NY, 1891.</i> Newburgh, NY: L. P. Waite &amp; Co., 1891.</p><p><li><i>Newburgh, NY, 1892.</i> Newburgh, NY: L. P. Waite &amp; Co., 1892.</p></DIV>'); }
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