Urban Maps and City Directories: Correlating Family History into Space And Time

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Urban Maps and City Directories: Correlating Family History into Space And Time

Philadelphia has been widely documented with maps and city directories over the years.  However, we often take our city directories, find a name and address, and then move on to census or other family data without correlating that information to the geography of the land.   This presentation by Frank Southcott, recorded during Family History Days, helps understand the importance of extracting and correlating all the data maps and directories provide.