City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. and are what I consider another important set of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research.
This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins, who for years has made available the Online Historical Directories website, which presents links to directories of all types that are available online, including free collections as well as those available only via subscription. I wish to thank Miriam for her help in launching this category of records at The Ancestor Hunt.
So, what kinds of directories are available to the researcher? Naturally city and business directories, but also telephone directories, and alumni, farm, lodge, rural, and social directories.
What can you find in these records? How about:
- Full names, including middle names
- Spouse name
- Occupation
- Widows, working women, and adult children at home.
- Maps
- Businesses (and index to advertisers).
- Addresses and maps of churches, schools, funeral homes, cemeteries, post offices, courts, hospitals, benevolent associations, newspapers.
- Whether a woman is a widow (including name of husband).
- List of marriages and deaths of previous year.
- Death date.
- etc.
Here are a few good primers on the benefits of searching historical city and other directories:
- FamilySearch - United States Directories
- How to Use City Directories In Your Genealogy Research
- What's In A City Directory? (a 10 article series about City Directories)
And here are various places where you can find other city directories online:
Note: Some of the links listed below take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections' images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital.
(Updated August, 2020; recently added links are in BOLD)
Links to these free collections are presented initially with statewide collections, followed in alphabetical order by city or county. Generally, the publishing company is included in the reference to the collection, along with the collection title, and the date(s) of the directory:
Statewide
- Classified Directory and Utah guide book, 1949-1950
- Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory
- Pacific Coast Business Directory, Langley, 1867
- R.L. Polk & Co.'s Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1918-1919
- The Utah Directory for 1883-1884
- The Utah Directory, for 1883-84
- Utah Directory and Gazetteer for 1879-80
- Utah Directory and Gazetteer, 1879
- Utah Directory and Gazetteer, 1879-1880
- Utah Gazetteer 1892-93
- Utah Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1922-1923
- Utah Gazetteer and Directory of Logan, Ogden, Provo, and Salt Lake Cities for 1884
- Utah Gazetteer and Directory of Logan, Ogden, Provo, and Salt Lake Cities, 1884
- Utah Gazetteer and Directory of Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo and Logan Cities for 1888
- Utah Gazetteer and Directory, 1874
- Utah Gazetteer and Directory, 1883-84
- Utah Gazetteer and Directory, 1900
- Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93
- Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory - 1900
- Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory - 1908-1909
- Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory - 1916-17
- Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory - 1918-19
- Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory - 1920-21
- Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory - 1927-28
- Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1900
- Utah Territorial Business Directory, Culmer, 1879-80
Clearfield Davis County Kaysville Logan
- Logan City and Cache County Directory (Utah) - 1907
- Logan City and Cache County Directory (Utah) - 1988
- Polk's Logan (Cache County, Utah) City Directory, 1909-10
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1904
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1905
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1909
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1915
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1946
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1949
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1953
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1955
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1956
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1958
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1959
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1961
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1962
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1963
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1964
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1965
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1966
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1968
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1969
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1971
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1972
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1973
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1974
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1975
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1977
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1978
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1979
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1980
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1981
- Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1983
- Directory of Ogden City and North Utah, 1878..
- Directory of Ogden City and Weber County. 1883
- Ogden Business Directory, 1867
- Ogden City Directory, 1879
- Ogden City Directory, 1883
- Ogden City Directory, 1895
- Ogden City Directory, 1902
- Ogden City Directory, 1912
- Ogden City Directory, 1918
- Ogden City Directory, 1920
- R.L. Polk & Co's Provo City and Utah County Directory, 1891
- R.L. Polk & Co's Provo City and Utah County Directory, 1901-02
- R.L. Polk & Co's Provo City and Utah County Directory, 1904-05
- R.L. Polk & Co's Provo City and Utah County Directory, 1911
- R.L. Polk & Co's Provo City and Utah County Directory, 1913-14
- R.L. Polk & Co's Provo City and Utah County Directory, 1915-16
- R.L. Polk & Co's Provo City and Utah County Directory, 1917-18
- R.L. Polk & Co's Provo City and Utah County Directory, 1920
- R.L. Polk & Co's Provo City and Utah County Directory, 1922
- Classified Directory and Blue Book, 1923 of Salt Lake City and Vicinity
- Garretty's Guide, Business Directory, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1890
- Gazetteer of Utah and Salt Lake City Directory, 1874
- R. L. Polk & Co's Salt Lake City Directory, 1923
- Salt Lake City and Adjoining Towns Telephone Directory - 1931-1932
- Salt Lake City City Directory and Utah Territorial Business Directory, Graham, 1883-4
- Salt Lake City City Directory and Utah Territorial Business Directory, Stenhouse, 1892-3
- Salt Lake City Directory - 1867
- Salt Lake City Directory - 1873
- Salt Lake City Directory - 1885-86
- Salt Lake City Directory - 1889
- Salt Lake City Directory, commencing Aug. 1,1885
- Salt Lake City Directory, Sloan, 1869 - Free (Google Books)
- Salt Lake City Directory: including a Business Directory of Provo, Springville, and Ogden, Utah Territory, 1867
- Salt Lake City, Utah, City Directory, 1909
- Salt Lake City, Utah, City Directory, 1920
- The Salt Lake City Blue Book (Householder's Directory) 1901-1902
- The Salt Lake City Directory and Business guide, for 1869
- Tooele (Tooele County, Utah) City Directory - 1974
- Tooele (Tooele County, Utah) City Directory - 1976
- Farmers and Merchants Directory of Utah County, 1916
- Utah County and Utah Territorial Business Directory, Culmer, 1879-8
- Utah County Farmers and Merchants Directory, Utah Farmers Directory Co., 1916
- Polk Weber County Directory 1878
- Polk Weber County Directory 1883
- Polk Weber County Directory 1904-1905
- Polk Weber County Directory 1906
- Weber County and Utah Territorial Business Directory, Culmer, 1879-80
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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