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Online Resources

• Washington Online Historical Directories - listed by county
• Pacific Coast Directory, 1867 ($)
• Tacoma, Washington Directories, 1889-91 ($)
• Seattle, Washington City Directories, 1888-90 ($)
• Spokane, Washington Directories, 1889-93 ($)
• Oregon, Washington and Alaska gazetteer and business directory: 1901-1902 ($) Index/images.
• Washington, Postmaster Indexes, Prior to 1965 Images. Also on *Ancestry.com, ($), index
• Bancroft's Hand-Book Almanac for the Pacific States 1862
• Bancroft's Hand-Book Almanac for the Pacific States 1864
  
  

History

Directories have been published for various Alabama cities and counties since the early 1800s, though they may not be available for every year. Some directories focus on the businesses or occupations of an area, others include heads of households, landowners, and voters.

City and county directories are similar to present-day telephone books and are useful records for locating people. They were often published annually. They list heads of households and employed household members with their occupations and addresses. They can be used with census records or as substitutes for them.

Resources for Washington Directories

Directories Online

• Oregon, Washington and Alaska gazetteer and business directory : 1901-1902. (If the link does not work, go to ancestry.com ($), click Search, select Card Catalog, paste Title into search box, click Search)

• Ancestry.com ($) has Washington directories available online in its U.S. City Directories collection.

• Washington, Postmaster Indexes, Prior to 1965 - FamilySearch Historical Records
• Bancroft's Hand-Book Almanac for the Pacific States 1862
• Bancroft's Hand-Book Almanac for the Pacific States 1864

The Family History Library

The Family History Library has city directories for various years from throughout the state of Washington including:

Seattle

Various years from 1872 - 1981 Seattle City Directories

Spokane

Various years from 1889 - 1985 Spokane City Directories

Tacoma

Various years from 1889 - 1935 Tacoma City Directories

To find directories, consult the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:

WASHINGTON, [COUNTY] — DIRECTORIES

WASHINGTON, [COUNTY], [TOWN] — DIRECTORIES

Websites

• US City Directories This website identifies printed, microfilmed, and online directories and their repositories.
• U.S. City Directories on Microfilm in the Microform Reading Room - Washington (Library of Congress)