1. Click the Search tab and choose Card Catalogue.
2. Under Filters on the left, click Schools, Directories & Church Histories and then choose Society & Employment Directories.
3. Click Search entire "Society & Employment Directories” Category.
4. Enter information and click Search.
    

Professional and organisational directories include people involved in professional, ethnic, political, fraternal, and military organisations. You’ll find membership applications, account books, meeting minutes, birth and death information, qualification, residence information, date of registration, and photographs.

Tips

• Occupations can be listed on census records, obituaries, cemetery records, draft registration cards, city directories, and wills and probate records.
• When you find directory images, browse through the whole directory page by page. This can give you a better sense of the organisation and provide you the opportunity to catch instances of an ancestor’s name that may be abbreviated.
• Search the Card Catalogue by occupation, and make use of wild cards; for example, a keyword search for “farm*” will turn up records that include the words “farm,” “farmer,” and “farming.”
• If you have trouble finding someone, try searching by their last name only. Since the entries are alphabetical, you’ll be able to see all the people with that last name. If the person’s first name is abbreviated, you should be able to find them by skimming through the entries with that surname.
• It’s best not to rely solely on the names in directories, since many people share names. Cross-check /hc/en-us/articles/53933340764691-/hc/it-it/articles/53933306512019 and occupations with information from censuses to ensure the name you find in a city directory matches your ancestor.