New york city, new york online historical directories. Manhattan and the bronx are listed together, brooklyn and queens are listed together, and richmond staten island has its own list. It is simply called new york online historical directories and it is organized by county. Statewide collections are found on the new york city directories page. If you would like to participate in identifying the listings of your local library, society, or archives, or if you know of any online transcriptions, please contact us. Genealogical research at the new york public library. The whole collection will be going online over the coming months. Manhattan and the bronx are listed together, brooklyn and queens are.
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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. 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. This page primarily lists records kept at the county level. Core domestic violence services targeted to individuals with disabilities, including deaf and hardofhearing who are victims of abuse. Aze new york new york city directories topics new york n. 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. Our printed directories, cdsdvds, and convenient online databases will help you find the prospects and customers you need quickly and easily. Many older directories have been digitized and are available on the open web and through subscription databases. There is a great site you can use to help locate historical new york state directories. For example, some may have entered by crossing the canadian border or have gone through other ports. New york city immigration records edit edit source passenger lists are available through multiple sources.
This web site will attempt to identify all printed, microfilmed, and online directories, and their repositories, for the united states. New york city directories available online all about relatives. About new york, city directories this database is a collection of city directories for various years and cities in new york. Rochester city directories by decade rochester public library. We will be digitizing all of the existing rochester city directories for the years 18271946. New york city, ny, brooklyn, ny, bronx, ny, manhattan, ny, queens, ny, staten island, ny, telephone directories publisher new york telephone company collection brooklynpubliclibrary. 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. The alphabetical listings provide clues to researchers about employment, residence, and age of citizens. Directories genres books directories type of resource text. Alphabetical telephone directory covering all five boroughs of new york.
This is a very selective list of materials available to family historians in the new york public library. Find information about important alerts, 311 services, news, programs, events, government employment, the office of the mayor and elected officials. Find out whats happening in new york city with free, realtime updates from patch. Our goal is to identify all city directories in all repositories. City directories, arguably one of the most overlooked resources by genealogists, have been around since the 1700s. New york city jewish records genealogy familysearch wiki. The database currently contains directories for all states except alaska. Links to city, county, and rural directories found online. To view the city directories, your web browser will need the free adobe reader plugin.
New york phone book and new york phone directory makes searching for businesses and people in new york easy by providing an online business and residential phonebook and phone directory in new york. City directories, 18221995 this database is a collection of directories for u. The first batch184950 through 1923have already been scanned, and the 178618489 directories are right now being scanned. New york city including all boroughs telephone directory. 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. New york city directory the new york public library digital collections. The purpose of the site is to have links to all online city directories in one place, listed by location and in date order. If a year is not listed, no directory exists for that year. The newyork directory, published in 1786, was the first extant directory for new york city and the third published in the united states. New york city, ny local directory and listings patch. Since 1870, polk city directories has helped people just like you find the most uptodate consumer and business information available.
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