The Genealogy Center has over 57,000 city directories, 11,000 on microfilm and several hundred on microfiche. A Table of Contents will list businesses, boundaries of wards (used in early census records), churches, city and county officers, index to advertisements, schools, banks, incorporated institutions, secret and benevolent societies, trades, professions, post offices, public buildings, street directory (for old street names and locations) and more. The directories are also a city guide and business mirror. While the names are listed alphabetical, some issues have a couple of pages of names that arrived too late to be included alphabetically. Like everything digital, some words will be missed when searching online. Online digital copies have been OCR'd, (Optical Character Recoginition) meaning we can do keyword searches to quickly find words we may not find by manually reading through each page. It is very helpful to look through a few city directories to see how much information they contain. Directories before and after 1890 are one way to recreate information for the missing 1890 census.

Robertson written on them indicating they were owned and donated to the library collection by Colonel Robert S. Many of the early directories have the name R. I have found even more online and have them listed below.Ĥ minute video City Directories posted Octoby the Genealogy Center on Facebook. Their book Fort Wayne, Indiana, city directory on the More Info tab has links to most of their online City Directories. Internet Archiveand links are on this page. All their available public domain copies before 1923 are online at The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana has originals and photocopies of almost every city directory issue from 1858 to the present time. See our 1900 Timeline and Maps page for more information. Excellent map with indexed locations for seeing where things were in early 20th century Fort Wayne. Griswold, (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927 at The Library of Congress, is a zoomable map. There were a few Allen County only directories such as 1906.ġ907 Griswold's birdseye view of the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana indexed for ready reference by B.

Public domain copies before 1923 are listed on the City Directories page and embeded within the Timeline pages. Home > Fort Wayne > City Directories of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana City Directories of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indianaįort Wayne city directories start in 1858 with business and city resident addresses.

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