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Table of Contents for "Business and Employment records"

by Kory L. Meyerink

in: Chapter 10

The Source : a guidebook of American genealogy, Revised edition
edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking

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Colonial Business and Employment Records

Apprentice Records
Other Indenture Records
Account Books
Other Records
Locating the Records

Early American Business Records, 1780-1870

Insurance Records
Credit Reporting Agencies
The Professions And Trades
Biographical Dictionaries
Freedmen Bank Records
Other Records
Locating the Records

Modern American Business and Employment Records, 1870-Present

Labor Unions
Railroad Employees
Colleges and Universities
U.S. Government Personnel
Small Businesses
Corporations
Pensions
Social Security
Mortuary Records

Identifying and Locating Modern Business Records

Business Directories
Trade Association Directories
Corporate Histories
Trade Journals
Locating Modern Business Records
Manuscript Collections
Historical Society Publications
Subject Collections
Bibliographies
American Archivist
Incorporation Registers and Files
Defunct Businesses
Notes
Bibliography

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