Essential Skills for New Genealogists 5 of 12: Let Your Fingers Do the Walking—Local Directories of All Sorts

Dave Mc Donald
Free

City directories, telephone books; trade directories and yearbooks (schools and community organizations); the resources’ use in placing a research target in their own time and place.

Fri, October 23 2026: 18:00 UTC

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Dr. David Mc Donald, The Preacher Genealogist, has been an active genealogist for nearly 50 years. He took his first client as a sophomore in high school, and taught his first classes in genealogy as a teen. Dave’s lectured nationally and in
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