Periodically, I like to compile lists of available online resources for this blog, mostly because the web is a mess, and I love to organize information. I also actually refer to lists I have compiled myself, so it makes my own research a little more handy.
Today I am presenting a list of digitized city directories as available on Internet Archive. I limited this list to directories that give general directory to citizens of the locales-I have not included directories that were limited to businesses or business men; nor have I included professional directories like medical directories, etc. I'll save those for another post. Note that some of these books were uploaded to Internet Archive from the Google Books scans.
Researchers in Indiana and North Carolina are particularly lucky here, as the ACPL and UNC contributed a vast number of directories. There are smatterings from other states, both rural and urban.
As always, you can check my Google Books Index for ongoing cataloging of genealogy-oriented books from Google Books.
Arizona
Tucson:
* 1881
California
Los Angeles:
* 1915
Richmond:
* 1914-1915
Sacramento:
* 1868
* 1921
San Francisco:
* 1908
* 1915
* 1920
* 1921
Colorado
Denver:
* 1871 (Includes regions of Idaho, Nevada, etc.)
Connecticut
Hartford:
* 1799
* 1896
* 1897
* 1898
* 1899
New Haven:
* 1840
* 1842
* 1899
Georgia
Atlanta:
* 1867-1868
Augusta:
* 1859-1860
Illinois
Chicago:
* 1844
* 1855
* 1856
* 1863-1864
* Blue Book, 1883-1884
Galena:
* 1854
Paris:
* 1908-1909
Shelbyville:
* 1909
Urbana-Champaign:
* 1878-1879
* 1883-1884
* 1890
* 1893
* 1895-1896
* 1898
* 1900
* 1902-1903
* 1904
* 1906
* 1908
* 1910
* 1912
* 1914
* <1916
* 1918
* 1919-1920
* 1921
* 1922
* 1925
* 1927
* 1935
* 1936
* 1937
* 1940
Wheaton:
* 1915-1916
Indiana
Allen County:
* 1906
Bartholomew County:
* 1903-1904
Fort Wayne:
* 1860
* 1864-1865
* 1867
* 1868-1869
* 1870-1871
* 1874-1875
* 1875-1876
* 1876-1877
* 1877
* 1878
* 1882-1883
* 1883-1884
* 1885-1886
* 1888
* 1898
* 1901
* 1902
* 1903
* 1906
* 1907
* 1910 Parts I and II
* 1911
* 1912
* 1915 parts I and II
* 1916
* 1917
* 1918
* 1919
Hartford:
* 1895
Indianapolis:
* 1855
* 1857
* 1858
* 1865-1866
* 1867
* 1870
* 1875
* 1877
* 1889
* 1890
* 1891
* 1894
* 1899
* 1901
* 1902
* 1904
* 1906
* 1911
* 1912
* 1916
* 1918
* 1919
* 1921
* 1922
Kokomo:
* 1910
Lafayette:
* 1909-1910
* 1920, Parts I and II
Michigan City:
* 1893-1894
* 1909-1910
Richmond:
* 1857
South Bend:
* 1921
Valparaiso:
* 1893
Whitley County:
* 1897
Kansas
* 1916
Maine
Portland:
* 1912
Maryland
* 1858
Massachusetts
Boston:
* 1789, Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, A-K, L-Z
* 1916 Parts I and II
* 1956, Volume I, Volume II
* 1957, Volume I, Volume II
* 1958, Volume I, Volume II
* 1960, Volume I, Volume II
* 1961, Volume I, Volume II
* 1962, Volume I, Volume II
* 1963, Volume I, Volume II
* 1964 Volume I, Volume II
* 1965
* 1966
* 1967, Volume I, Volume II
* 1968, Volume I, Volume II
* 1969, Volume I, Volume II
* 1970, VOlume I, Volume II
* 1971, Volume I, Volume II
* 1972, Volume I, Volume II
* 1973, Volume I, Volume II
* 1974-1975, Volume I, Volume II
Lowell:
*1832
* 1834
* 1845
* 1851
* 1853
* 1861
Pepperell:
* 1907
Salem:
* 1857
Michigan
Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County:
* 1916
Detroit:
* 1845
* 1846
Saginaw:
* 1915
Union City:
* 1909
Minnesota
Minneapolis/St. Paul:
* 1885
Stillwater:
* 1876-1877
Missouri
Jefferson City:
* 1900
Nevada
Carson City, Reno and Washoe County:
* 1921
Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City, American City:
* 1864
* See also: Colorado
New Jersey
Newark:
* 1838-1839
* 1851-1852
New Brunswick:
* 1909-1910
New York
Albany:
* 1869
Brooklyn:
* 1912
Buffalo:
* 1832
Manhattan:
* 1837, Volume I, Volume II
* 1839
* 1853
* 1907
* 1914
* Social Registers, 1887 Volume I, Volume III, Volume IV, Volume V, Volume VI, Volume VII, Volume VIII
Plattsburgh:
* 1913
Schnectady:
* 1862-1863
* 1864
Utica:
* 1883
North Carolina (Note that these city directories have been organized by category and keyword on Internet Archive, therefore I have linked to the aggregate pages for these cities, and listed below the years available as of this posting).
Asheville:
* 1887, 1890, 1896-97, 1899-00, 1900-01, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1922
Burlington:
* 1920-21
Charlotte:
* 1875-76, 1905-06, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920
Concord:
* 1908, 1913-14, 1916-17, 1920-21, 1922-23
Durham:
* 1887, 1923
Elizabeth City:
* 1923-1924
Fayetteville:
* 1915-1916
Gastonia:
* 1910-11, 1913-14, 1918-19, 1921-22, 1923-24
Goldsboro:
* 1916-17
Greenville:
* 1916-17
Hendersonville:
* 1915, 1921-22
Hickory:
* 1920-21
High Point:
* 1908, 1910-11, 1913, 1919, 1921-22, 1923-24
Kinston:
* 1923-24
Lexington:
* 1916-17
Lumberton:
* 1916-17
Monroe:
* 1922
New Bern:
* 1916-17, 1920-21
Raleigh:
* 1883, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1896-97, 1899-00, 1901, 1921
Salisbury:
(See Spencer)
Spencer:
* 1907-08, 1913-14, 1915-16, 1917, 1919-20, 1922-23
Statesville:
* 1916-17, 1922-23
Washington:
* 1916
Wilmington:
* 1865-66, 1871, 1877-78,1889, 1922
Winston-Salem:
* 1908, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1927
Ohio
Cincinnati:
* 1861
Cleveland:
* 1859-1860
Mount Vernon:
* 1876-1877
Sandusky:
* 1867
* 1877
Wooster:
* 1900
Oregon
Portland:
* 1956
* 1957
* 1959
* 1962
Pennsylvania
Sharon:
* 1919
South Carolina
Charleston:
* 1851
* 1852
Tennessee
Nashville:
* 1865
Utah
Salt Lake City:
* 1879-1880
* 1883-1884
* 1892-1893
* 1909
West Virginia
Parkersburg:
* 1907
1 comment:
Jennifer, this is amazing, thank you for the opportunity to have these resources available to us. I didn't find my brickwall ancestor but I enjoyed browsing and going thru. Thank you so much. I know this is a small organizational idea but I love spread sheets too! I have been working on a spread sheet for a "Blog log" there are so many genealogy blogs out there and I am getting most of them in my Google reader, but at times I would like to remember certain posts or ideas or comments so I decided I need a way to record that info, do you have any ideas in this area! Or perhaps you have already created one! I will go thru several and then days later tell a freind about something and think, what blog was that on! I figured we have a research log, why not a blog log!?
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