This database is a transcription of three city directories. Links to city, county, and rural directories found online. New york city, ny local directory and listings patch. City directories, arguably one of the most overlooked resources by genealogists, have been around since the 1700s. Find out whats happening in new york city with free, realtime updates from patch.
New york city directories nypl digital collections. Our printed directories, cdsdvds, and convenient online databases will help you find the prospects and customers you need quickly and easily. New york city directory the new york public library digital collections. Generally a city directory will contain an alphabetical list of its citizens, listing the names of the heads of households, their addresses, and occupational information. The newyork directory, published in 1786, was the first extant directory for new york city and the third published in the united states. About new york, city directories this database is a collection of city directories for various years and cities in new york. Aze new york new york city directories topics new york n. New york city directories record the names and addresses of city residents, businesses, churches, schools, police stations, courts, and other government offices, as well as the names of individuals associated with those institutions. Our goal is to identify all city directories in all repositories. They also feature images, including maps, illustrations of buildings, and advertisements. Brooklyn public library established in 1896, bpl is one of the nations largest public library systems and currently has nearly 700,000 active cardholders. It is simply called new york online historical directories and it is organized by county.
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Sep 21, 2016 new york public library is digitizing its collection of new york city directories, 1786 through 19223, serving them free through the nypl digital collections portal. Oct 05, 2016 new york public library is digitizing its collection of new york city directories, 1786 through 19223, serving them free through the nypl digital collections portal. Alphabetical telephone directory covering all five boroughs of new york. Statewide collections are found on the new york city directories page. New york online historical directories listed by county.
Manhattan and the bronx are listed together, brooklyn and queens are listed together, and richmond staten island has its own list. The whole collection will be going online over the coming months. New york city, ny, brooklyn, ny, bronx, ny, manhattan, ny, queens, ny, staten island, ny, telephone directories publisher new york telephone company collection brooklynpubliclibrary. Schenectady county ny city directories lds genealogy. New york public library is digitizing its collection of new york city directories, 1786 through 19223, serving them free through the nypl digital collections portal. Not all passengers heading to new york city came through the port of new york.
This web site will attempt to identify all printed, microfilmed, and online directories, and their repositories, for the united states. City directories can help you to establish your ancestors residence in a certain place at a certain time, and they can give information about a persons occupation, home address, name of a spouse, and names of neighbors. New york public library digitizes 7 years of new york city. A year earlier, the first two in the country were published in philadelphia the first, compiled by francis white, was initially printed october 27, 1785, and the second, compiled by john macpherson 17261792, was initially printed. This page primarily lists records kept at the county level. We will be digitizing all of the existing rochester city directories for the years 18271946. The first batch184950 through 1923have already been scanned, and the 178618489 directories are right now being scanned.
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