Friday Finds in Directories: 27 March 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historical directories:

• Chicago City Directories on Archive.org by Michael John Neill at Search Tip of the Day
• Direct Me NYC 1786: A History of City Directories in the United States and New York City by Philip Sutton at New York Public Library blog

For pages on my site related to the above articles, visit the Cook County, Illinois Online Historical Directories page and the New York City, New York Online Historical Directories page.

Jean Wilcox Hibben will be presenting a free webinar for the Illinois State Genealogical Society on May 12th titled "Need Direction? Try City Directories!" For more information, see this link. Here's a tutorial on how to access webinars.

Friday Finds in Directories: 20 March 2015 (A Day Late)

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historical directories:

• Providence City Directories by Diane MacLean Boumenot at One Rhode Island Family
• Using the “Between” Records – County and City Directories by Alan Campbell at the Ontario Genealogical Society Blog
• Indianapolis City Directories by Michael John Neill at Search Tip of the Day

For pages on my site related to the above articles, visit the Providence County, Rhode Island Online Historical Directories page, the Ontario Online Historical Directories page, and the Marion County, Indiana Online Historical Directories page.

Jean Wilcox Hibben will be presenting a free webinar for the Illinois State Genealogical Society on May 12th titled "Need Direction? Try City Directories!" For more information, see this link. Here's a tutorial on how to access webinars.

Friday Finds in Directories: 13 March 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historical directories:

• Women's History Month 2015: A Few More Words About Directories by Gena Philibert-Ortega at Gena's Genealogy - Gena describes a variety of directories outside of city directories.
• An Exact Death Date in a City Directory Listing by Diane Gould Hall at Michigan Family Trails - one of the very nice perks of researching city directories!

Friday Finds in Directories: 6 March 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historical directories:

• A New Genealogy Website went Online Today: Genealogy Gophers by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - Dick highlights a new website that searches online historical and genealogical books across the internet, including city and other directories.
• A Free Book in Google Books Lists Details of all Voters in New York City for 1919 also by  Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - call it a "voters' directory" if you will, but this ebook should be helpful for those searching for their NYC ancestors in the late 1910s/early 1920s.
• Women's History Month 2015: City Directories by Gena Philibert-Ortega at Gena's Genealogy - Gena explains how city directories are helpful tools in researching your female ancestors
• Birmingham's Public Library Has Street Name Changes--Does Your Library? by Michael John Neill at Search Tip of the Day - I've added a link to the Birmingham Public Library's Street Name Changes to the Jefferson County, Alabama Online Historical Directories page, by the way.