District of Columbia – Directories

City Directories and a good tool for searching for ancestors in a location that is unknown to you. Often the directory will provide additional family members living in the same household.

Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia

Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia began in 1858 as a directory of Washington and Georgetown. It took on the “District of Columbia” title in the 1870s, not long after the city consolidation of 1871. The directory ran under the Boyd name until the 1940s, when it was renamed Polk’s directory after its publisher at the time.

•  1853 Boyd’s Washington and Georgetown Directory
  • Abbot-Davidson
  • Davis-Johnson
  • Johnston-Rhodes
  • Rodier-Zimmerman
• 1860 Boyd’s Washington and Georgetown Directory
• 1862 Boyd’s Washington and Georgetown Directory
• 1864 Boyd’s Washington and Georgetown Directory
• 1871 Boyd’s Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria Directory
• 1875 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1876 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1877 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1878 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1881 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1887 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1892 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1893 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1894 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1896 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1898 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1901 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1903 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1906 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1908 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia
• 1909 Boyd’s Directory of the District of Columbia

Other Directories of the District of Columbia

• 1822, The Washington Directory
  Showing the Name, Occupation, and Residence, of Each Head of a Family and Person in Business. The Names of the Members of Congress, and where They Board: Together with Other Useful Information
• 1843, The Washington directory, and governmental register
• 1850, The Washington directory, and Congressional and executive register
• 1853 The Washington and Georgetown directory, strangers’ guide-book for Washington, and congressional and clerks’ register

Partial Directories of the District of Columbia

• 1862 City Directory, African Americans, Partial: names R. Brown – J. Brooke
• 1879 City Directory, partial: surnames beginning with B and W
• 1880 City Directory, partial: pages 676-677
• 1880 City Directory, partial: surname of PAYNE
• 1877 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Gossnell and Gossler
• 1881 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell and Gosler
• 1882 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surname Gosnell
• 1883 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surname Gosnell
• 1884 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surname Gosnell
• 1885 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surname Gosnell
• 1886 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surname Gosnell
• 1887 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surname Gosnell
• 1888 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell and Mutchler
• 1889 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell and Mutchler
• 1890 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Gossler, Inscoe and Mutchler
• 1891 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Gossler, Inscoe and Mutchler
• 1892 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe and Mutchler
• 1893 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Gossnell, Inscoe, Insor and Mutchler
• 1895 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe, and Mutchler
• 1896 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe, Inscone, and Inscore
• 1897 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe, Mutch and Mutchler
• 1900 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe,and Mutcher
• 1901 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe, and Mutchler
• 1902 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe, and Mutchler
• 1903 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell,Inscoe, Mutch, and Mutchler
• 1904 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell,Inscoe, Mutch, and Mutchler
• 1905 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: complete surnames Gosnell,Inscoe, Mutcher, and Mutchler
• 1906 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell,Inscoe, Inscore, and Mutchler
•  1907 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell,Inscoe, Inskeep, and Mutchler
•  1908 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell,Inscore, Mutchler, and Mustchler
• 1909 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe, Inscore, Mutchler and Mutschler
• 1910 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe, Inscore, Mutchler, and Mutschler
• 1911 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe, Mutchler, and Mutschler
• 1912 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe, Mutchler, and Mutschler
• 1913 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell, Gosnall, Inscoe, and Mutchler
• 1914 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnall, Gosnell, Inschoe, Inscoe, and Mutchler
• 1916 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell, Inscho, Inscoe, and Mutchler
• 1918 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell, Inscoe, Inskeep, and Mutchler
• 1919 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell, Inscho, Inscoe, Inskeep, and Mutchler
• 1921 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell,Inscoe, Inskeep, Mutchler, and Mutschler
• 1922 Boyd’s Directory, Partial: partial surname Davis, complete surnames Gosnell,Inscoe, Inskeep, Mutchler, and Mutschler