Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (4935 pages)
Author: Sands & McDougall
Year: (1876-80) 2008
ISBN: 9781742221502
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

What is a Directory?
In very broad terms, a directory is an extended version of our current day white pages and yellow pages combined (without the telephone numbers). They list many many thousands of names, together with their occupations and addresses ... but also so much more.

What information does this Directory contain?
This large Sands and McDougall directories (or Sands and Mac as many people know them as), are known to amongst the most comprehensive. Divided into various sections you will find:

• Alphabetical name directory
• Street directory
• Trade and Professional directory
• Miscellaneous (Baking, Societies, Government & Official, Ecclesiastical, Legal & Municipal, Postal, Trade & Customs)
• Advertisements

What areas are covered by this Directory?
The regions covers both Melbourne and its suburbs: Ascot Vale, Alphington, Bolingbroke, Boroondara, Box Forest, Brighton East, Brighton South, Brighton West, Brunswick, Camberwell, Camden Town, Carlton, Carlton North, Caulfield, Cheltenham, Coburg Collingwood, East Melbourne, Elsternwick, Elwood, Emerald Hill, Essendon, Fitzroy, Fitzroy North, Flemington, Footscray, Footscray Upper, Gardiner, Gowervillw (Preston), Greenwich, Hartwell, Hawthorn, Heidelberg, Hotham, Irishtown, Ivanhoe, Jolimont, Keelbundora, Kensington, Kew, Malvern, Moonee Ponds, Mulgrave, Newlands, Newmarket, Northcote, Norwood, Oakleigh,
Parkville, Prahran, Preston, Richmond, Sandridge, St Kilda, South Melbourne, South Yarra, Thomastown, Toorak, Westgarthtown, West Melbourne, Williamstown, Windsor, Yarraberg, and Yarraville.

How can this Directory help me?
Directories are one of the most effective ways of tracing members of a family, especially tradesmen. Many small businesses needed to ensure the public was aware of their activity and one of the better ways to do this in an age before media dominated was via a directory. The value of directories as a research tool is enhanced when no census material is available. The Street directory covering Melbourne proper, is a house-by-house listing of the head of the household. 

This Compendium contains the names, addresses and occupations of many thousands of people in Melbourne and suburbs and regional areas from 1876-1880. Never before has this title been so readily available, or so easy to use. If you bought all 5 years individually, the cost is $147.50, so buying the compendium saves you big $$s.

High quality scanned images of the whole of the each original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text

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