The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 38, September 22, 2002, Article 12

CITY DIRECTORY RESEARCH

  In response to Dick Johnson's notes about using city directories
  for numismatic research, Jørgen Sømod writes: "I have collected
  directories, phone catalogs and other books with many names
  year by year for more than 30 years. They are for me a very
  important tool in numismatic research, not only for medallists,
  but also for  medals, tokens and private emergency money.

  Of course is it Danish material I am collecting, but I have also
  a few directories from US Virgin Islands.  Beside the official
  archives, of which some of them now can be found online, is
  there also the Mormon archives in Utah. They have in many
  years photographed the original material in church books etc.
  in many countries and they have done a fantastic work by
  typing that material into a digital use.  I am informed, that big
  parts of it shall be online now, but haven't yet been using it yet.
  However I have a couple of times visited the Mormons here in
  Copenhagen and I must say they are more than helpful."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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