Pennsylvania Directories

Online Resources

 * Fold3 City Directories Pennsylvania
 * Pennsylvania Online Historical Directories - listed by county
 * Pennsylvania City Directories, by county and city

Resources for Pennsylvania Directories
Directories of heads of households have been published for major cities in Pennsylvania.

Directories Online

 * Fold3.com ($) has Philadelphia City Directories 1785, 1791, 1793-1922 (7 yrs. missing) and Pittsburgh City Directories 1861-1923 (3 yrs. missing) available online.
 * Ancestry.com ($) has Pennsylvania directories available online in its U.S. City Directories collection.

The Family History Library
Some examples of statewide directories for Pennsylvania are:

''The Pennsylvania Law Directory. Lindsay and Blakiston, 1844.''.

Ulman, H. C. Ulman's Pennsylvania Business Directory and Eastern, Western and Southern Circular, 1854/55..

Boyd, William H. Boyd's Business Directory of the Counties of Adams, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin, Lancaster, Montgomery, and York, PA, 1860..

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

Philadelphia

1797-1849: 1850-1899:  1861-1901:

Pittsburgh

1861-1901: 1916, etc.:

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


 * PENNSYLVANIA, [COUNTY] — DIRECTORIES
 * PENNSYLVANIA, [COUNTY], [TOWN] — DIRECTORIES

Websites

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