http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=205+North+24th+Street,+Birmingham,+AL go to these and then click on each of the maps and see what was or is there ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melba Clark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | There are sections of the city directories for Birmingham which are arranged | by street address. One could look for the address in the 1945 directory | and probably find the name of the hotel. The Birmingham Public Library has | directories, as well as Wallace State College Library. | | The Birmingham Public Library has microfilm of newspapers of that time | period. | Melba Clark | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "deb & jim" <[email protected]> | To: <[email protected]> | Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:29 PM | Subject: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | | | > Researching the following family names: TYLER/MORRIS/TIDWELL | > | > | > My grandmother, Queenie Morris, died on September 12, 1945 after a fall | > from a window of a hotel located at 205 N. 24 Street in Birmingham. Was | > that the Hillman Hotel? She passed away at the Hillman Hospital, was | > buried at Mt Hope Cemetery, Brown-Service was the funeral home. Would | > anyone have access to any news stories that may have appeared at that time | > in any local newspapers? Or maybe even an obit? | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message