{"id":6563,"date":"2017-05-04T08:11:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6563"},"modified":"2017-05-04T08:11:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:11:27","slug":"ads-in-city-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/04\/ads-in-city-directories\/","title":{"rendered":"Ads in City Directories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t just look for a relative&#8217;s name in the alphabetical directory if you know they operated a business of some sort. It is possible they had an advertisement in the directory as well.\u00a0Advertisements in city directories can give clues about your ancestor&#8217;s occupation, business location, and more.<\/p>\n<p>This 1880 advertisement in a Denver, Colorado, directory indicated that the relative&#8217;s business also operated out of a Kansas City, Missouri, office as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6564\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1880-albers-colorado.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1880-albers-colorado.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1880-albers-colorado-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1880-albers-colorado-624x535.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank. <\/em>Try their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t just look for a relative&#8217;s name in the alphabetical directory if you know they operated a business of some sort. It is possible they had an advertisement in the directory as well.\u00a0Advertisements in city directories can give clues about your ancestor&#8217;s occupation, business location, and more. This 1880 advertisement in a Denver, Colorado, directory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}