(This page's most recent update is October 2024)
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City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S.. They are what I consider another important set of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research.
This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins, who for years has made available the Online Historical Directories website, which presents links to directories of all types available online, including free collections and those available only via subscription. I wish to thank Miriam for her help in launching this category of records at The Ancestor Hunt.
So, what kinds of directories are available to the researcher? Naturally city and business directories, telephone directories, alumni, farm, lodge, rural, and social directories.
What can you find in these records? How about:
- Full names, including middle names
- Spouse name
- Occupation
- Widows, working women, and adult children at home.
- Maps
- Businesses (and index to advertisers).
- Addresses and maps of churches, schools, funeral homes, cemeteries, post offices, courts, hospitals, benevolent associations, and newspapers.
- Whether a woman is a widow (including the name of her husband).
- List of marriages and deaths of the previous year.
- Death date.
- etc.
Here are a few good primers on the benefits of searching historical city and other directories:
- FamilySearch – United States Directories
- How to Use City Directories In Your Genealogy Research
- What’s In A City Directory? (a 10 article series about City Directories)
And here are various places where you can find other city directories online:
Note: Some links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. 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 film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.
Oklahoma City Directories
Links to these free collections are presented initially with statewide collections, followed in alphabetical order by city or county. Generally, the publishing company is included in the reference to the collection, along with the collection title, and the date(s) of the directory:
Statewide
- 1892 – The Bensel Directory Co’s. Directory of the Cities and Towns on the M.K. & T. Railway Between Parsons, Kansas and Denison, Texas, 1892-1893
- 1902 – 1902 Oklahoma Gazetteer and Business Directory, Part 2
- 1902 – R.L. Polk & Co.’s Oklahoma and Indian Territory Gazetteer and Business Directory – 1902-1905, pt. 1
- 1902 – R.L. Polk & Co.’s Oklahoma and Indian Territory Gazetteer and Business Directory – 1902-1905, pt. 2
- 1977 – Directory of Tribal Officials, Eastern 1977-1978
- 1994 – 1994 Roster of Oklahoma Public and Institutional Libraries, a Directory of Oklahoma Public Libraries and Library Boards, Institutional Libraries, and Key Personnel
- Directory of Oklahoma Librarians, 1951
- Directory of Oklahoma, 1975
- Directory of Oklahoma, 1977
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma – 1957
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma – 1957
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1921-31
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1931
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1933
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1937-45
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1947
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1949
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1951
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1953
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1955
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1957
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1959
- Directory of the State of Oklahoma, 1963
- Directory of Tribal Officials, Eastern Oklahoma – 1977-1978
- Oklahoma State Gazetteer and Business Directory – 1913-1914
- Oklahoma State Gazetteer and Business Directory – 1913-1914
- R.L. Polk & Co.’s Oklahoma and Indian Territory Gazetteer and Business Directory, PT. 1 1902 (alt. Copy)
- R.L. Polk & Co.’s Oklahoma and Indian Territory Gazetteer and Business Directory, PT.2 1902 (alt. Copy)
- R.L. Polk & Co.’s Oklahoma State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1913-1914
- R.L. Polk & Co.’s Oklahoma and Indian Territory Gazetteer and Business Directory
- R.L. Polk & Co.’s Oklahoma and Indian Territory Gazetteer and Business Directory – 1902-1905, pt. 1
- R.L. Polk & Co.’s Oklahoma and Indian Territory Gazetteer and Business Directory – 1902-1905, pt. 2
- R.L. Polk & Co.’s Oklahoma and Indian Territory Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1903
- Smith’s First Directory of Oklahoma Territory, 1890
- Smith’s First Directory of Oklahoma Territory, 1890
- The Standard Blue Book of Oklahoma, 1910-1911
- The Standard Blue Book of Oklahoma, 1910-1911
Andarko
Bristow
- Bristow City Directory, 1926
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1925
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1926
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1927
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1928
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1929
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1930
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1931
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1932
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1934
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1935
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1936
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1938
- Bristow Telephone Directory, 1939
Choctaw County
Hugo
- Hickman’s Hugo, Oklahoma City including Choctaw County, 1930
- Moorhead Directory Company’s Hugo, Oklahoma City, 1951-1952
- Page Company’s Hugo, Oklahoma, City, 1920
- The Baldin and Daily News Hugo, Oklahoma Con Survey Master Edition, Vol. 1, 1940
Logan County
Muskogee
- Moore’s Directory of the City of Muskogee, Indian Territory, 1903
- Moore’s Directory of the City of Muskogee, 1903
- Moore’s Directory of the City of Muskogee, 1904
- Moore’s Directory of the City of Muskogee, 1905
- Moore’s Directory of the City of Muskogee, 1906
- Moore’s Directory of the City of Muskogee, 1907
- Moore’s Directory of the City of Muskogee, 1908
- Moore’s Directory of the City of Muskogee, Indian Territory, 1903
- Phoenix Directory of Muskogee and Muskogee County, 1921
Norman
Oklahoma City
- Oklahoma City (Oklahoma Co., Oklahoma) Directory – 1905-1906
- Oklahoma City (Oklahoma Co., Oklahoma) Directory – 1905-1906
- Oklahoma City Directory 1905-1906
- Polk’s Oklahoma City Directory – 1921
- Polk’s Oklahoma City Directory – 1921
- Polk’s Oklahoma City Directory, 1921
- Pryor, Oklahoma City Directory – 1963
- Standard Atlas of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma 1907
Pauls Valley
- Johnson’s Pauls Valley, Oklahoma City Directory – 1973
- Johnson’s Pauls Valley, Oklahoma City Directory, 1973
Stillwater
- City Directory for Stillwater, 1910
- City Directory for Stillwater, 1938
- City Directory for Stillwater, 1939
- City Directory for Stillwater, 1957
- City Directory for Stillwater, 1962
Tulsa
- Hoffhine’s Tulsa, Oklahoma Directory for 1910
- Polk-Hoffhine Co.’s Tulsa, Oklahoma Directory for 1920
- Polk-Hoffhine Directory Co.’s Tulsa City Directory 1921
- Polk-Hoffhine Directory Co’s Tulsa City Directory 1922
Washington County
- Washington County, Oklahoma Rural Directory, 1974
- Washington County, Oklahoma Rural Directory, 1974
- Washington County, Oklahoma Rural Directory, 1974
Woods County
Woodward
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1949
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1951
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1955
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1960
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1962
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1964
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1968
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1970
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1972
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1974
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1977
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1979
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1982
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1985
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1988
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma) 1990
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1949
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1951
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1952
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1955
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1960
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1962
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1964
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1966
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1968
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1970
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1972
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1974
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1977
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1979
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1982
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1985
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1988
- Woodward City Directory (Woodward County, Oklahoma), 1990
Woodward County
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