How do I find the street location and ward information of an ancestor who lived in Pittsburgh or Allegheny City?

City directories are invaluable genealogical resources in which you can trace the address and occupations of residents of the Cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny. The Historic Pittsburgh Full-Text Collection contains a small sampling of directories from the Pittsburgh area: • The Pittsburgh directory for 1815 • Woodward & Rowlands' Pittsburgh directory for 1852 • Directory of Pittsburgh & vicinity for 1857-1858 • Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny cities, 1864-1865 • Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny cities, 1877-1878 • Wiggins' directory of Greensburg and Westmoreland County for 1890-91 Local libraries and archives have more complete holdings of city directories that range in years from ca. 1815 to the 1970s. Reference staff at the Library & Archives at the History Center and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Department can assist with city directory searches. Historic Ward information is documented on map plates in the Historic Pittsburgh Maps Collection. Ward ...  more