Teresa Allen - new info!

Found a couple of new sources of information on Ancestry this evening! They might seem to be inconsequential, but they changed an assumption that I had made about my grandmother, Teresa Allen. I thought she lived in Chicago before she met my grandfather. Turns out she lived in Waukegan...in fact, she lived on the very street where she later lived as a married woman and mother. 

The two sources were the 1922 and 1925 city directories for Waukegan. Teresa M. Allen lived on Sherman Avenue in 1922, and on Washington Street in 1925. 

These sources also confirmed what my mother told me, that her mother Teresa worked for a Dr. E. B. Jolley, and ear nose and throat doctor in Waukegan. In 1922 she was his "assistant." In 1925, the directory used the abbreviation "sten" meaning possibly stenographer.

So exciting to find new bits of information after such a long dry spell in my research.