Those search engines return various indexed pages and online business directory listings. This book meticulously documents these changes and is a great complement to the vancouver city directories. Philadelphia city directories are an excellent source for locating information on the citys residents, businesses, and citywide development. Thumbing through a phone book and hoping to, by chance, choose a reputable dentist or mechanic isnt going to meet those needs. New york city directories nypl digital collections.
Limit your search to special collections under library, then enter a subject term using the name of a town or city, with the word directories for example. The anywho people search is updated weekly with phone numbers of individuals from across the nation. Kansas telephone and city directories kansas historical. Directories, telephone books and voters lists 221 research guide most recent update.
Prior to the emergence of the phone directory, books called city directories listed residents and businesses in us towns. Noncurrent telephone and city directories in the library of. Phone books and directories resources houston public library. Hawaii directories at include city directories, phone books and white pages for major cities and surrounding areas. Listing of long distance calling codes for countries and cities overseas. Fulton county, georgia online historical directories. Referenceusa for remote users bookmarked links will no longer work with this resource. Telephone, addresses, and email directories university of tennessee library telephone and city directories in the library of congress. The directories are listed alphabetically and chronologically by province and town.
Each directory has an index and ads from local businesses and includes names, addresses, and phone numbers for residents and businesses. Pdf version of an information sheet on british phone books. Phonebooks helps find people, phone numbers, and addresses. Consult an appropriate style guide for conformance to specific guidelines. The online site titled old phone book can take you back 20 years to 1994 and allows you to search across the united states for individuals who were listed in a phone book. Abebooks 10 most expensive sales of telephone directories.
Irma and paul milstein division of united states history, local history and genealogy 254. With over 10 million entries, information contained in this database includes. If you know your ancestors occupation, check for a section of the directory listing phone numbers by profession. Online phone book lookup any phone number in the u. The library of congress makes available to the public an extensive collection of current and noncurrent telephone, city, and reverse telephone crisscross directories for the united states and many foreign countries. For information on a particular type of directory, consult the table of contents. Used to be able to look online for free just like an actual phone book. For information on a particular type of directory, consult the table of contents above and then refer to. In the case of older telephone directories, these you may find street directories, lists of advertisements which may include your ancestors business, lists of government officials, charitable organizations, churches, cemeteries, hotels, maps, and much more. The information in this guide comes primarily from james neagles the library of congress.
We have a nearcomplete set of phone books for the whole country produced not only by bt, but also by its predecessors including post office telecommunications, the national telephone company and other. The database currently contains directories for all states except alaska. The phone book to cover the whole country was published in 1896 and had 81,000 numbers. Following this paragraph are some possible sources of old directory listings which were. Spyral back in time to capture records of people and their lives in past years. Find people, phone numbers, addresses and more is the only website to offer users access to three different types of people searches and an international telephone directory. Current directories telephone and city directories in. If a town is very small, try entering the name of the parish. Check your local phone book for recycling information, usually in the front or back. San francisco directory kimball no directory available a. It wasnt that long ago that phone numbers could only be found in bulky phone books. Now that there many phone companies which phone company would be publishing and delivering the phone books.
About canadian phone and address directories, 19952002 this database is a collection of phone and address directories from throughout canada from 19952002. This list is meant to include resources in addition to the ones found at commercial genealogical sites like familysearch, ancestry, fold3, and the like. Atlanta city directory, barnwell, 1867 free dons list. Anywho provides a free online people search directory where you can find people by their name, address or you can do a reverse lookup by phone number. Phoneaddress directories international directories area code. In hsps library is a complete run of city directories beginning in the late 18thcentury and running consistently through 1935. The quality and significance of the documents, photographs and films we preserve have been recognised by both arts council england and unesco uk historical phone books. City directories can list additional information about reside, including occupation, the address of their business, and. When searching for cousins, great aunts, or grandparents, it can be very helpful to find an address of where they did or presently live. But truthfinder offers a way to look up phone numbers, plus a lot more information, that cant be found in old phone books.
The first telephone exchange was in the city of london and had seven subscribers. City directories digital archives city of san diego. This microfilm is not available for sale from nara. And the lists are by no means exhaustive, so if you know of other digital collections on chicago. A database nebraska phonebooks has been developed to give an accurate account of our holdings and to help. San francisco directory harris, bogardus and labatt no directory available san francisco directory langley san francisco directory langley. Whitepages official site find people, phone numbers. These annual volumes preceded telephone directories and listed names, addresses and occupations of local merchants and residents. City directories, 18221995 this database is a collection of directories for u. This guide contains information on the directories, as well as other published resources on philadelphias. Keep in mind the family or person you are search had to be listed in a phone book. Whitepages is the authority in people search, established in 1997. City, business, legal, and phone directories from the 19th and 20th centuries. An excellent list of city and provincial directories is.
Free chicago city directories online sassy jane genealogy. The city clerk archives digitized these directories on loan from the central san diego public library. Telephone directories is a place where you can look for information of people within the territory of the united states of america, this information is totally free and safe. Portland city directory, polk, 1956 free internet archive includes milwaukee. Telephone directory directory first telephone book links. City directories uw libraries university libraries. April 2019 this guide will help you find county and city directories, phone books and voters lists that are in the archives collections.
Telephone directories contain addresses and phone numbers and can be quite helpful in locating living relatives or possible relatives with the same surname or a similar surname. Telephone and city directories in the library of congress. Todays list is about sites that host free chicago city directories online. Rare 1957 spokane telephone directory phone book washington state nice. This page lists microfilmed city directories available at national archives building, 700 pennsylvania ave. Numberway provides links to international directories on all continents. With comprehensive contact information, including cell phone numbers, for over 275 million people nationwide, and smartcheck, the fast, comprehensive background check compiled from criminal and other records from all 50 states. Our hawaii telephone directories range from 1930s to 1970s. Do a search for phone book or directory or white pages at. T he library of congress makes available to the public an extensive collection of current and noncurrent telephone, city, and reverse telephone crisscross directories for the united states and many foreign countries. To see what cities are included in each phone book, check out the cross directory. This database is a collection of directories for u. A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phone book, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone.
An individual could have a cell phone and landline from different companies which would result having a phone book from each phone company delivered to the business or residential address. Circa 1930 city directories available at nara national. Generally a city directory will contain an alphabetical list of citizens, listing the names of the heads of households, their addresses. Expand your research by checking out the georgia online historical newspapers here. Phoneaddress directories international directories area code locators state abbreviations zip codes package delivery services u. Each directory has been digitally scanned allowing you to view and print images of the actual pages.
Telephone directory directory first telephone book links local calling areas. Old telephone books possibly the worlds largest online collection of phone books. If curbside recycling is offered in your community, you will likely have the ability to recycle yellow pages directories by putting them in your curbside bin. Many of the street names in vancouver have changed or have fallen into disuse over the years. Telephone directory collection, available online library of. San francisco directory parker lecount and strongs directory. Street names of vancouver by elizabeth walker, vancouver, b. British columbia city directories 18601955 page image. To request a city directory on paper, fill out a call slip using city directory as the call number. Expand your research by checking out the oregon online historical newspapers here. Multnomah county, oregon online historical directories. Landlords use whitepages tenantcheck, which is designed expressly.
The kansas historical society research collections contain both published city directories and telephone books for the state of kansas. Research your genealogy with our free collection of old city directories. These directories are available in a variety of formats and locations. Telephone directories list adult residents, their addresses, and their phone numbers. About british phone books, 18801984 this collection contains british phone books published between 1880, the year after the public telephone service was introduced to the uk, and 1984, from the historic phone book collection held by bt archives. For those who desire lookups in city directories such as the old directories found in many local and state public libraries, and for volunteers who are willing to undertake requested lookups in these directories. What is the internets equivalent of the old phone book. Infobels international telephone directories provides links to directories worldwide. Trow directory, printing and bookbinding company 42.
Philadelphia city directories historical society of. Pacific coast 186264 handbook almanac for the pacific states. If family histories or just digging into old documents is your thing, then oh man the brooklyn public library has some good news for you the library announced this month that it has digitized 107 years of city directories and telephone books, spanning 18561967, all easily perusable online the phone books, and in the pretelephone era, city directories, contain valuable information. Anywho provides a free online white pages directory where you can find people by their name, address or you can do a reverse lookup by phone number. The coverage is from the early 1900s to the present. Internet links to email and street addresses, telephone directories, zip codes, state abbreviations, package delivery information. The phone company in most cities publishes a directory of everyone in that area who has a listed phone number. More current directories as well as the haines akron city and suburban crisscross directories from 1943 to the present and akron area telephone directories from 1914 to the present early years are incomplete are also available in special collections. Internet links to email and street addresses, telephone directories, zip codes, state. For links to other free chicago resources, click here. Unlike similar websites, all our information is available completely free. But better yet all the text is fully searchable by keywords such as name, occupation, business, street name, address, phone number, etc. As of 2015, pre1976 telephone directories are mostly in paper copies, while those from 1976 to 1995 are all in microfilm. Phone books often only list a persons landline phone number.