Help Please on deciphering the listings in the following batch.
US—City and Business Directories, 1749–1990 [Part C] [M347-K7T]
The fist group(?) of names begins 'Carlsbad, Bryant Clara Mrs'.
This could be Bryant Carlsbad and his wife , Mrs. Clara OR it could be Mrs Bryant Clara Carlsbad.
the third line is similar but with no 'Mrs' and the 'Carlsbad' indicated by dashes -------
The rest of the batch continues the same way - a surname followed by one or more other names set off with dashes.
Is there any way to be sure what the following names are?
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Hello! This is a great question. It seems that this directory lists the cities first so first I would index the left margin and top of the page business names and my indexing effort would look like this:
Entry 1 Kenrick – surname
Entry 2 Bellamy – surname
Entry 3 Critchett, O A – surname and given name
Entry 4 Bryant, Clara Mrs. – Surname, given name and prefix
Entry 5 Crawford – surname possibly of the beauty parlor
Entry 6 Egger, Evelyn Mrs. – surname, given name and prefix
Entry 7 Bennie – surname possibly of the beauty Service
Entry 8 Roebuck, Cath Mrs. – surname, given name and prefix
Entry 9 Sullivan, Helen, Mrs.
Entry 10 Wells, Grace Mrs.
*Note Carrizozo is the city so
Entry 11 Claunch, Eva A
Entry 12 Johnson, Zula May
*Note Causey seems to be the city so
Entry 13 Terral, D C Mrs.
And so forth. I hadn’t come across this kind of directory until this morning and it threw me off a little. We appreciate your hard work and for indexing and serving others. I hope this was helpful.
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Edit: After reading what @DSIreland wrote, I will remove my comment. It is good that there are more than one set of eyes on these batches! I sure hope the reviewers catch on as DS did!
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