City Directories - Misc
Records: 4,782
City directories give us regular and timely snapshots of a community. They list residents and businesses within a city or town, often including suburbs. The alphabetical listings provide clues to researchers about employment, residence, and age of citizens. Because they are published frequently, more often than every ten years like the census, directories help us verify residences and businesses on a chronological scale.
Continue reading ›Example Records
Page from a New-London, Connecticut directory
From a Bangor, Maine directory
William Abbey, 1894, Pawtucket and Central Falls, Rhode Island
Source Information
"City Directories" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com//title/94/city-directories-misc: accessed August 11, 2021)
- Publication Title
- City Directories - Misc
- Total Records
- 4,782
- Content Source
Fold3
- Published on Fold3
- 09 Jan 2007
- Last Updated
- 17 Jul 2008
- Description
- Locate residents, organizations, and businesses in America's population centers within city directories.