North Dakota Directories

Online Resoures

 * U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 ($)

History
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.

Libraries and Archives
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 (FamilySearch Library ).

''The Leading Business Men of Dakota Cities: Accompanying the Map of Dakota Territory, Name and Address. ''Minneapolis, Minnesota: Warner &amp; Foote, 1883 (FamilySearch Library ).

Directories Online
Ancestry.com ($) has North Dakota directories available online in its U.S. City Directories collection.

The FamilySearch Library
The FamilySearch Library has city directories for various years from throughout the state of North Dakota including:

Bismarck

1914-1920, 1928-1933 FS Library microfilm 2309664

1960, 1965, 1975, 1980 etc. FS 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

 * US City Directories This web site identifies printed, microfilmed, and online directories and their repositories.