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Okay, this is gonna be difficult. The best, and only, answer I can give you isn't on the web at all. There were city directories printed every year for most larger towns and cities. They DON'T put these on the web; I've checked. So, the best I can tell you is to pick where you think it is most likely that they would have been and write or e-mail the city archives. They should have the directories. They may look it up for you, or you may have to go there, if it's close enough for you.


You might also try land deeds at their archives, seeing who bought, sold, and rented during those years.


Unfortunately, the government doesn't keep such records. They only keep the census, which is every decade, and doesn't include 1890, which was destroyed in the 20's because of water damage. At the time, the government had no need to keep such information. The towns, however, did. That would be your best bet, but it's gonna take some time, and the cities in question might not still have their records. You get disaster all the time that destroy such things.


By the way, if you know where they were before, and where they were after, you'll have a pretty good idea of where to start looking, at either end, or in major cities in between. You don't rent in tiny towns when in transit to another state, after all.


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