Online Historical Directories

It's been a year since I've posted updates. I have done a lot of work this past year, but realized that I had not notified my readers via this blog about them. Two most notable changes: the Eve N Don directory site not only changed its name to Don's List after his wife Eve passed away, it also changed its URL (web address). It took quite a bit of time for me to make the appropriate changes to this site. The second change was when the BYU Digital Books site changed to FamilySearch Books. I'm not done changing all those links. Meantime, you can check them out at FamilySearch Books and do a search for "directory." Additionally, the site Old Directory Search is now offline. I've started to remove some of the dead links, but again, have not gotten to all of them.

New Pages

Covington County, Alabama - with three links for Andalusia from Ancestry



Updates

FAQs page - removed three dead links

Resources - removed two dead links

Alabama - now with 11 out of 67 counties linked

Calhoun County, Alabama - 15 new links for Anniston from Ancestry; updated one link for Anniston from BYU Digital Books to FamilySearch Books; removed two dead links from the Internet Archive

Jefferson County, Alabama - 59 new links (12 for Bessemer; 47 for Birmingham) from Ancestry; one new link for Birmingham from Hathi Trust Digital Library; removed duplicate link from Internet Archive;

Arizona - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cochise County, Arizona - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List; updated 101 links from USGenWeb!

Maricopa County, Arizona - updated two links from Eve N Don to Don's List; removed six broken links from AZClips

Pima County, Arizona - updated two links from Eve N Don to Don's List

California - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Alameda County, California - updated two links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Boulder County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Contra Costa County, California - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Los Angeles County, California - updated three links and added two more, all from Don's List; removed two broken links and corrected one link from USGenWeb; corrected two links from Southern California Genealogical Society; corrected one link from Ancestry

San Francisco City-County, California - removed broken link to San Francisco Genealogy site; updated seven links from Eve N Don to Don's List

San Mateo County, California - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cheyenne County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Clear Creek County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Denver County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List; removed one dead link from Old Directory Search

Gilpin County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Jefferson County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Larimer County, Colorado - 17 new links from Fort Collins History Connection

Kit Carson County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Las Animas County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Pueblo County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Weld County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Connecticut - updated three links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Fairfield County, Connecticut - removed one dead link from Old Directory Search

Hartford County, Connecticut - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

New Haven County, Connecticut - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

District of Columbia - updated five links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Fulton County, Georgia - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Illinois - updated three links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Adams County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Alexander County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Bureau County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cass County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Champaign County, Illinois - updated eight links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Christian County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Coles County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cook County, Illinois - one dead link removed from Old Directory Search; updated 13 links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Douglas County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Edgar County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Kane County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

LaSalle County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Macon County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Madison County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Mason County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

McHenry County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Menard County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Peoria County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Randolph County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

St. Clair County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Sangamon County, Illinois - updated two links from Eve N Don to Don's List; corrected one link from University of Illinois at Springfield

Shelby County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Woodford County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Allen County, Indiana - updated five links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Dearborn County, Indiana - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Jay County, Indiana - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Jefferson County, Indiana - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

LaPorte County, Indiana - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Marion County, Indiana - updated one link from BYU Digital Books to FamilySearch Books; corrected one link from Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis University Libraries; updated 10 links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Kansas - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Kentucky - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Campbell County, Kentucky - updated six links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Daviess County, Kentucky - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Kenton County, Kentucky - updated six links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Mason County, Kentucky - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

McCracken County, Kentucky - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Orleans Parish, Louisiana - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Maine - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cumberland County, Maine - updated five links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Knox County, Maine - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List; updated one link from BYU Digital Books to FamilySearch Books

Maryland - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

City of Baltimore, Maryland - updated three links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Massachusetts - removed link to Hampden County; now with 10 out of 14 counties linked

Bristol County, Massachusetts - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Essex County, Massachusetts - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Hampden County, Massachusetts - removed dead link to Old Directory Search; removed page as there are no longer any links on it

Hampshire County, Massachusetts - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Plymounth County, Massachusetts - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Suffolk County, Massachusetts - 57 new links from Boston Athenaeum Digital Collections; updated eight links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Michigan - removed one dead link from Clarke Historical Library

Saginaw County, Michigan - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Wayne County, Michigan - added five new links and updated three links from Michigan Local History Network; updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Missouri - updated two links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cape Giradeau County, Missouri - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Lewis County, Missouri - corrected page header

Monroe County, Missouri - corrected page header

City of St. Louis, Missouri - 21 new links from St. Louis Circuit Court Legal Encoding Project; two new links from Google Books; updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List; removed five dead links from University of Missouri Library Systems while waiting to hear back from the site's webmaster to see if there are new links

FAQs - one new link

Resources - three new links

Jefferson Co., Kentucky - removed 1859 Louisville link from KentuckyCityDirectories; site is offline

New York City, New York - 22 new links from Ancestry; corrected six links, removed one, and added 9 from Don's list; nine new links, five corrected ones, and five removed ones from the new Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page website

Ontario, Waterloo - corrected link from Don's List

Thank you to all who commented via Twitter, Facebook, this blog, and my e-mail. I appreciate all the comments, corrections, and new links shared. Please note that if you find an error, list specifically what it is and on what page it appears (i.e. "1884 Chicago City Directory at Ancestry, Cook County, Illinois) to help me correct it faster.

I completed and added the following pages today: Resources, Articles and FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions). They are all accessible from the Home page. The FAQs page especially is helpful in understanding how the site is set up, and I recommend you read it before going on to any other pages.

The Articles page lists helpful articles found online that explain how and why city and other directories are used in genealogy. The Resources page lists where I find the directories that I link to on my website, as well as a useful form that Dae of Shoestring Genealogy created to list information found while researching directories.

My next big focus will be the Detroit (Wayne County, Michigan) and Chicago (Cook County, Illinois) pages. As you probably noticed, they are incomplete and have unlinked titles on them. I also need to reformat the links to show the publisher's name, so that you can know if you are comparing the same directories from different websites.

Keep those links and comments coming in. I'll be adding them as time allows.

Today I began an Article page and a FAQs page. I also added a Huron County, Ohio page. There are now 184 pages on the website.

I also started changes to the page footers to add a link to this blog and a subject line of "Online Directories" for the e-mail address link, so that when I receive e-mails from site users, I'll know at once that they are referencing the site.