If you are keeping for your descendants a short history of your life, do not forget to include your former addresses. This is particularly important if you’ve made several significant moves in your lifetime. It’s also important if you lived in one area most of your life time with the exception of a few years in a different location. Those things get forgotten.
And if you aren’t keeping a short history of your life for your descendants, why not? Don’t we wish our ancestors had done that?
And asking about former addresses is a way to get a relative’s memory going as well. Just don’t nag them for specific house numbers if they can’t remember. City directories and other contemporary sources may help you fill in the specific details.
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