Resources

Useful Resources

City Directories Chart - use this handy form to record information found in city directories, both online and off; created by Dae Powell at Shoestring Genealogy.

The Development and Growth of City Directories by A. V. Williams (on Google Books) - discover when city directories began for most any city in the U.S. and around the globe

Steve Morse's "Obtaining Street Name Changes in One Step" - links to lists of street name changes in major U.S. cities

Online City Directory Resources

(For offline resources, check out question number 4 on the FAQs page.)

Subscription Databases Websites: Ancestry, Fold3, GenealogyBank (a subscription newspaper site with some directories), GenealogyToday, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Historic Map Works, Vital-Search (a subscription vital record site with some directories), WorldVitalRecords

Free Directories Websites: All-Ancestors, DistantCousin, Don's List, KentuckyCityDirectory

Free Online Book Websites:Digital Book Index, Digital Public Library of America, FamilySearch Family History Books (formerly BYU Digital Books), GooBooGeni, Google Books, HeritageQuest (must access with a library card from a participating library; links here for list), Internet Archive, Making of America (Cornell U), Making of America (UMich)

Local Genealogy Resources: Cyndi's List, Genealogy Trails Linkpendium, USGenWeb, USGenNet, WorldGenWeb

Public Libraries: Library of Congress, Library and Archives of Canada, PublicLibraries.com, WorldCat

Museums, Universities, and Archives: WWW Virtual Library, Repositories of Primary Sources