Tag: Ancestors’ homes

 

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NEWS: Press Release from TheGenealogist * (affiliate link.)

Leading family history website TheGenealogist has announced the release of 39 comprehensive directories spanning 1935-1940, covering over 6 million individuals and businesses. This significant addition provides family historians and researchers with access to information about individuals and companies in the run-up and early days of World War II.

The newly digitised collection includes:

• • • Over 6 million individuals and businesses
    • 39 detailed directories covering various regions
    • Searchable information about residences and commercial establishments

“This release represents a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to providing comprehensive historical records to genealogists and family historians,” says Mark Bayley, Head of Online Development at TheGenealogist. “These directories offer a unique glimpse into the lives of people and businesses operating during the outbreak of the Second World War, providing invaluable context for family researchers.”

Users can access these new records through TheGenealogist’s advanced search system, which allows for both broad and detailed searches across the entire collection.

In these records is Agatha Christie, Queen of Mystery – read her story here: https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2025/agatha-christie-7954/  (affiliate link.*)

For a limited time, you can get 12 Months for the price of 9 on our Diamond Subscription. You’ll also receive a Research Pack worth over £32.

Explore these new records and start your genealogical journey today with TheGenealogist by claiming this offer here:

https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/MGBDIR125  (affiliate link.*)

Offer expires 10th March 2025.

 

 

The Directories covered in this release are: Bedfordshire, Huntingtonshire & Northamptonshire, 1940 Kelly’s Directory; Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire 1935 Kelly’s Directory; Bristol & Suburbs, 1937 Kelly’s Directory; Buckinghamshire 1939 Kelly’s Directory; Cambridge 1937 Kelly’s Trade Directory; Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay & C 1939 Kelly’s Directory; Croydon 1939 Ward’s Directory; Cumberland & Westmorland, 1938 Kelly’s Directory; Cumberland, Westmorland and North Lancashire, July 1940 Telephone Directory; Devon 1935 Kelly’s Directory; Devon and Cornwall 1935 Kelly’s Directory; Devonshire & Cornwall, 1939 Kelly’s Directory; Dorsetshire, 1939 Kelly’s Directory; Edinburgh & Leith 1939-1940 Post Office Directory; Essex 1937 Kelly’s Directory; Essex, East Suffolk & East Herts 1939 Telephone Directory ; Gloucestershire 1939 Kelly’s Directory; Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, 1940 Directory and Almanack; Hampshire & The Isle of Wight, 1939 Kelly’s Directory; Hants & Isle of Wight 1935 Kelly’s Directory; Huntingdonshire 1940 Kelly’s Directory; Ireland 1935 Thom’s Directory; Lincolnshire 1937 Kelly’s Directory; Liverpool & South West Lancashire, December 1939 Classified Telephone Directory, ; London 1936 Kelly’s Post Office Commercial Directory; London 1937 Post Office Directory; London 1938 Post Office Directory; Paris 1935 Directory; Rutland, 1936 Kelly’s Directory; Somerset 1935 Kelly’s Directory; Somerset 1939 Kelly’s Directory; Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth Districts March 1940 Telephone Directory; Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, 1940 Kelly’s Directory of ; Sunderland, Newcastle and Gateshead 1937 Ward’s Directory; Watford 1937 Kelly’s Directory; Wembley, Alperton, Sudbury and Kingsbury, 1937 Kelly’s Directory; Weston Super Mare Directory 1935; Wiltshire 1939 Kelly’s Directory; Worcester 1937 Kelly’s Directory

 

 

About TheGenealogist

TheGenealogist * is an award-winning online family history website, who put a wealth of information at the fingertips of family historians. Their approach is to bring hard to use physical records to life online with easy to use interfaces such as their Tithe and newly released Lloyd George Domesday collections. 

TheGenealogist’s * innovative SmartSearch technology links records together to help you find your ancestors more easily. TheGenealogist * is one of the leading providers of online family history records. Along with the standard Birth, Marriage, Death and Census records, they also have significant collections of Parish and Nonconformist records, PCC Will Records, Irish Records, Military records, Occupations, Newspaper record collections amongst many others.

TheGenealogist * uses the latest technology to help you bring your family history to life. Use TheGenealogist * to find your ancestors today!

 

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