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

What information does this Wise's Directory contain?
Wise's directories, are known to amongst the most comprehensive. Divided into various sections you will find:

• Indexes
• Cities, Towns and Townships
• Alphabetical directory
• Trades directory
• Miscellaneous directories (covers the banking, legal, Justices of the Peace, medical, ecclesiastical, educational, agricultural, government and official, and postal fields)
• Local Government
• Official directory
• Taxes, Licences and Stamp Duties
• Advertisements

What areas are covered by this Directory?
This directory covers both Hobart and Launceston, as well as naming the trades and residents in over 450 towns and districts throughout Tasmania.

How can this Directory help me?
They contain an immense amount both information, both for the genealogist and historian.

• The alphabetical section lists the names of each head of household and their town of residence, in many cases their occupation and street address is also listed.
• The cities, town and townships directory lists individuals and businesses alphabetical by town, with the name and occupation of each person listed in each town.
• The trade directory contains information on businesses and companies, listed alphabetically by trade, with an address.
• The miscellaneous and other sections contains the names and positions of 1000s of people in various other occupations such as banking, education, agriculture, government, medical, postal and numerous others ...
• The advertisements are a useful source of information as well.

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

Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s.

Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.