{"id":232,"date":"2015-06-18T05:22:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2015-06-18T05:22:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T05:22:18","slug":"manually-browsing-a-1908-city-of-chicago-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Manually Browsing a 1908 City of Chicago Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Names that get spelled numerous ways create research challenges. Desmarais is one of those names. There are times where it is simply easier to manually search a record instead of performing a seemingly infinite variety of wildcard searches. Manual searches of a long list of variants are somewhat easier when the item being searched is already alphabetical in nature.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_233\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1908DeLue-Andrew-p-653.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"wp-image-233\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1908DeLue-Andrew-p-653.jpg\" alt=\"1908DeLue, Andrew (p 653)\" width=\"421\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1908DeLue-Andrew-p-653.jpg 927w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1908DeLue-Andrew-p-653-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1908 Chicago, Illinois, City Directory, page 653&#8211;Louis DeMar; digital image,\u00a0<em>Fold3.com<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s how I located Louis DeMar in the 1908 directory for the City of Chicago living at 11942 State Street using online copies of the directories for Chicago at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10934994?url=http:\/\/www.fold3.com\/browse.php#227|h25JYODs2cmBGG9ch\">Fold3.com<\/a><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ftjcfx.com\/image-865524-10934994-1383146580000\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Desmarais has a long list of spelling variants, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demarais<\/li>\n<li>DeMar<\/li>\n<li>DeMare<\/li>\n<li>Demarrah<\/li>\n<li>Demaray<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To locate Louis in this directory given its alphabetical nature, it was simply easier to view the pages of the directory that started with &#8220;Dem&#8221; and &#8220;Des&#8221; and view the entries manually. This relieved me of relying on a variety of wildcard searches and increased the chance I found the entry of interest it if was rendered in some way that was not on my variant list.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve found him one way in a directory for the City of Chicago, I&#8217;ll start every search for him in a directory with that name. Hopefully that is the way he is listed in the majority of directory entries while he lived in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10934994?url=http:\/\/www.fold3.com\/browse.php#227|h25JYODs2cmBGG9ch\">Fold3.com<\/a><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ftjcfx.com\/image-865524-10934994-1383146580000\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0has digital copies of city directories for a variety of larger United States cities. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10934994?url=http:\/\/www.fold3.com\/browse.php#227|h25JYODs2cmBGG9chhttp:\/\/www.fold3.com\/browse.php#223|\">The cities and coverage can be viewed on the <em>Fold3.com<\/em> site<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ftjcfx.com\/image-865524-10934994-1383146580000\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. If online images for a specific city of interest are not available elsewhere, it may be worth considering a temporary subscription and downloading all the relevant pages of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Names that get spelled numerous ways create research challenges. Desmarais is one of those names. There are times where it is simply easier to manually search a record instead of performing a seemingly infinite variety of wildcard searches. 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