Who should use this Guide?
| This guide is intended primarily to help genealogy researchers discover information about a defunct family-owned business or ancestor's occupation, but may be useful to any researchers looking for historic business information. |  |
| NYPL Digital Collections Image ID T000313 |
Overview
Researching a historic business can be challenging. Since It is cheaper and easier for companies to destroy outdated records than to maintain them, most businesses come and go without leaving much of a paper trail.
Even when a company's own records have not survived, however, there are other sources that may document its existence. This guide will describe how to uncover the history of a business using the following resources:
- City Directories
- Business Directories
- Newspapers and Trade Journals
- Government Records
- Business Records
- Images and Maps
- Books and Articles
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