The Sands and McDougall directories are not only one of the best known of the Australian directories, but also the most comprehensive. Directories are one of the most effective ways of tracing members of a family, especially tradesmen. Many small businesses needed to ensure the public was aware of their activity and one of the better ways to do this in an age before media dominated was via a directory.
Divided into three main sections: Street directory; Alphabetical directory; and a Trade and Professional directory.
Other useful mini-directories included, provide the names and positions of hundred of people, in the following occupations or positions:
Users should always refer to the display advertisements because not only do they give you a sense of the era, but they often provide names and addresses.
This ebook is a the same as the CD version from Archive Digital Books Australasia which is available from Gould Genealogy & other retailers. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole original volume, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
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Publisher | Archive Digital Books Australia |
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Author | Sands & McDougall |
Date | (1871) 2008 |
Pages | 940 |
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