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Table of Contents for Chapter 10, "Business and Employment records," by Kory L. Meyerink, in: The Source : a guidebook of American genealogy / edited by Arlene Eakle and Johni Cerny. Published: Salt Lake City, Utah : Ancestry Pub. Co., 1984.

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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
Other Records
Locating the Records

Modern American Business and Employment Records, 1870-Present

Labor Unions
Small Businesses
Corporations
Social Security
Mortuary Records

Locating Modern Records
Defunct Businesses
Railroad Employees
                Repositories
Bibliography

Appendix 1: Old Trades and Occupations

Appendix 2: Life Insurance Companies Commencing Business Prior to 1876 in Active
               Operation in 1942

Appendix 3: United States Labor Union Records
Appendix 4: Index of Companies Profiled in Everybody's Business: An Almanac, 1981
United States Companies Ranked by Fortune: An Address List
Elaine Barton, Compiler

Appendix 5: 500 Top United States Companies
Appendix 6: Fifty Largest Life Insurance Companies
Appendix 7: Fifty Largest Transportation Companies
Appendix 8: Fifty Largest Retailing Companies
Appendix 9: Fifty Largest Utilities
Appendix 10: Fifty Largest Commercial Banking Companies
Appendix 1 1: Forty-five Largest Diversified Service Companies
Appendix 12: Fifty Largest Diversified Financial Companies

How to Find Business and Employment Records
          Arlene H. Eakle

Finding Aids
Colleges and Universities
U.S. Government Personnel
Research Hints

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