North Dakota Directories
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Directories are alphabetical lists of names and addresses. City directories can help you learn where an ancestor lived. The person’s occupation is frequently given. Often the home address and business address are both mentioned. When a husband dies, many times the widow is listed as "widow of...."
Directories can help you determine which jurisdictional ward the family lived in if you are searching census records for a particular time period in a big city. Directories sometimes have maps and addresses of churches, cemeteries, courthouses, and other important locations.
Resources for North Dakota Directories[edit | edit source]
Libraries and Archives[edit | edit source]
Regional business directories that include present-day North Dakota:
Northwestern Gazetteer: Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana Gazetteer and Business Directory. St. Paul, Minnesota: Polk, 1914 (Family History Library Films 1321220-1321221).
The Leading Business Men of Dakota Cities: Accompanying the Map of Dakota Territory, Name and Address. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Warner & Foote, 1883 (Family History Library Film 1464014 Item 18).
Directories Online[edit | edit source]
Ancestry.com ($) has North Dakota directories available online in its U.S. City Directories collection.
The Family History Library[edit | edit source]
The Family History Library has city directories for various years from throughout the state of North Dakota including:
Bismarck
1914-1920, 1928-1933 Family History Library microfilm 2309664
1960, 1965, 1975, 1980 etc. Family History Library book 978.477/B1 E4p
To find directories, consult the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:
- NORTH DAKOTA, [COUNTY] — DIRECTORIES
- NORTH DAKOTA, [COUNTY], [TOWN] — DIRECTORIES
Websites[edit | edit source]
- US City Directories This web site identifies printed, microfilmed, and online directories and their repositories.
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