{"id":312,"date":"2010-01-27T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2024-08-09T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T15:48:34","slug":"city-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/city-directories.html","title":{"rendered":"City Directories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of city directories are going online. <\/strong><\/span>
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\nCity directories are a basic tool for genealogists. City directories are like an annual census<\/a> of the cities and towns across America. Now – thousands of them are being digitized and put online. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Photo:<\/a>Read about the history of city directories here: <\/span><\/strong>Williams, A.V. Growth and Development of City Directories<\/a><\/em>. Cincinnati, OH: Williams Directory, Co., 1913. 152p. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Download and Keep this book in your personal library!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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City directories usually<\/strong> <\/span>listed all adult residents of the community. Typical entries give: <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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Name; address; occupation; relationships; notification that a person moved & where they moved to; divorce dates\/remarriages; widows etc. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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Here is an example of entries identifying widows – giving the names of their deceased husbands in the <\/strong>Indianapolis 1914 City Directory<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. \"Photo:<\/strong><\/span>Here are just a few examples of the city directories that are going online: <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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Detroit, Michigan. 1875. City Directory<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Google Books<\/span><\/div>\n

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Greensburg, Pennsylvania. 1968. City Directory<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Internet Archive<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Hartford, Connecticut. 1899. City Directory<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Google Books<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Madison, Wisconsin. 1866. City Directory<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Google Books<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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New York City. 1872. City Directory<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Google Books<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Northampton & Easthampton, Massachusetts. 1883-1884 City Directory<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Google Books<\/span><\/strong>
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Internet Archive<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has over 2,300 city directories online and <\/strong><\/span>Google Books<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has over 1,000 city directories online. These directories are not on GenealogyBank. All genealogists should use those sites to find city directories. Good things are happening all across the Internet. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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It is a great day for genealogy!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands of city directories are going online. City directories are a basic tool for genealogists. City directories are like an annual census of the cities and towns across America. Now – thousands of them are being digitized and put online.   Read about the history of city directories here: Williams, A.V. Growth and Development of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1076,5280,5,1142,1878,511,1154,541,920,1102,478,1230,1129,1143,1036,12,1661,2061,542,1166,2191,1674,574,1829,1231,614,1067,1103,1874,455,878,27,1177,539,1106,2135,5458,540,1092,1704],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-america","tag-book","tag-books","tag-census","tag-center","tag-chicago-metro-news","tag-cincinnati","tag-city-directory","tag-co","tag-connecticut","tag-daily-inter-ocean","tag-detroit","tag-family","tag-familysearch","tag-genealogists","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-google","tag-google-books","tag-hartford","tag-history","tag-id","tag-il","tag-in","tag-indianapolis","tag-inter-ocean","tag-massachusetts","tag-michigan","tag-ms","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newspapers","tag-northampton","tag-oh","tag-pennsylvania","tag-widows","tag-williams","tag-williams-directory","tag-wisconsin","tag-york"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99911,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/99911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}