Texas Directories
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Online Resources[edit | edit source]
- Texas Online Historical Directories - listed by county
- Texas City Directories
Resources for Texas Directories[edit | edit source]
Libraries and Archives[edit | edit source]
Directories Online[edit | edit source]
- Fold3.com ($) has Dallas City Directories 1878-1923 (8 yrs. missing) available online.
- Ancestry.com ($) has Texas directories available online in its U.S. City Directories collection.
The Family History Library[edit | edit source]
The Family History Library has the following directories for Dallas:
| 1875-1935 |
FHL films 1376774— |
| 1916, 1918, 1941, 1960, 1964, 1970, 1975, and 1979 |
FHL book 976.42812 E4pj |
The Family History Library has city directories for as early as 1856 for Galveston, Austin (1857), Houston (1866), and San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas (1877).
Directories of heads of households have also been published for some cities in Texas. These and other directories can be found in the FamilySearch Catalog by using a Place Search under:
- TEXAS- DIRECTORIES
- TEXAS, [COUNTY]- DIRECTORIES
- TEXAS, [COUNTY], [TOWN]- DIRECTORIES
Web Sites[edit | edit source]
- Texas State Library and Archives Commission
- Cyndi's List City Directories
- US City Directories This web site identifies printed, microfilmed, and online directories and their repositories.
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