Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Thurston, 1864-5.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Thurston, 1863-4.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Thurston, 1862-3.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Thurston, 1861-2.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Thurston, 1856.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Polk & Dudley, 1900. Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Harris, 1839.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Fahnestock, 1850.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Diffenbacher, 1897.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Diffenbacher, 1895.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Diffenbacher, 1879-80.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh City Directories, Diffenbacher, 1878-9.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh Business Directories, U.S.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh Business Directories, Harris, 1847.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh Business Directories, Harris, 1844.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh Business Directories, Harris, 1841.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh Business Directories, Business Men’s Protective Association, 1878.Allegheny City and Pittsburgh Blue Book, Brown Haven, 1895.Aliquippa – Fall, White Pages and Yellow Pages.Aliquippa – 1/1954 thru 2/1961, White Pages and Yellow Pages.Pennsylvania State Buyers Guide 1940 through 1944, Yellow Pages.Pennsylvania Business Directory, Ulman, 1854-5.Great Lakes Marine Directory, Polk, 1884.Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Physicians’ and Dentists’ Directory, Young, 1908.Generally, the publishing company is included in the reference to the collection, along with the collection title, and the date(s) of the directory: Links to these free collections are presented initially with statewide collections, followed in alphabetical order by city or county. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not. To take full advantage, please make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. 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 camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. Note : Some of the links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. What’s In A City Directory? (a 10-article series about City Directories)Īnd here are various places where you can find other city directories online:.How to Use City Directories In Your Genealogy Research.FamilySearch – United States Directories.Here are a few good primers on the benefits of searching historical city and other directories: List of marriages and deaths of the previous year.Whether a woman is a widow (including the name of her husband).Addresses and maps of churches, schools, funeral homes, cemeteries, post offices, courts, hospitals, benevolent associations, and newspapers.Widows, working women, and adult children at home.It's expensive to compile and print a directory which is usually distributed for free and I doubt the cost will be justified for much longer. I don't think I've used a phone book for years as it is, since I will generally go to the internet to search for a business and their contact details and many of my friends simply don't have a land line these days, or prefer to go unlisted. I've got to wonder how long the white pages is going to last with the ubiquity of the internet and cell phones. Maybe one day the internet will be so widespread that no one will be without it, but until then lines of communication depend on access to old fashioned paper directories. I hope the white pages doesn't get shut down any time soon, because I just don't think we're ready for that as a society. And there are plenty of businesses where it makes much more sense for a copy of the white pages to be made available to employees who might need it, rather than giving them access to a computer or the internet. Not everyone has access to the internet and not every number is going to be available online either. September 3, - The white pages directory is still used by a large number of demographics in a community. There should be a way to opt out of receiving it. It just seems like a massive waste of paper to me that so many households have these directories that they don't really use. Well, maybe more places can make it a voluntary process to get a phone directory or something like that.
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