The Unofficial Footnote Blog

Many people are not familiar with City Directories. I tell them that it’s like a phone book, before there were phone numbers in them. That’s too simple, and I’d like to describe them a bit more now.
I’m very fond of a book that contains an entry like, “Brown, Sarah widow of Samuel.” You can generally [...]

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This is the unofficial Footnote Blog. There is also an official Footnote Blog. On 30-March, when Footnote rolled the 1930 Census, they also announced enhancements to the search function on the site. The announcement said, in part:
Search Updates
We’ve received some great feedback about searching Footnote and we’ve made some significant improvements based on your suggestions.  [...]

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