Hello Diane, Maybe your Library has something different than mine, but I get city directories all the time. Even for unique names they may not be much of a resource. Some of the ones I found only listed an address and occupation. My expectation is that since you are trying from home, W/O a subscription you are not able to access the pay records. Mike in Ohio DianeLeMasson wrote: > Hi > > This is actually concerning Ancestry Library Edition at my library. > Since I do not have a subscription I sometimes research Ancestry at > my library. After checking the newest databases from my computer I > wrote down what I needed to check out & to research. > I actually map out the steps I need to find them again. > > U.S City Directories was one of them. I could not find it. It was not > listed in the, Genealogy Databases Posted or Updated Recently, list, > at my library. Either was the other database records I was interested in. > > However they are listed on their on line site, Ancestry.com, I check again > when I got home. I made no mistake, I copied it correctly so have no idea > why I couldn't find them at my library. > > Does anyone know, is it possible Ancestry Library Edition & Ancestry.com > are different? I did try to find out on my own searching through Ancestry, > I > wasn't able to find anything pertaining to this. > Your help will be greatly appreciated. > Thank you! > > Diane

Mike, check your email Diane "Michael Kenefick" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > Hello Diane, > > Maybe your Library has something different than mine, but I get city > directories all the time. Even for unique names they may not be much of a > resource. Some of the ones I found only listed an address and occupation. > > My expectation is that since you are trying from home, W/O a subscription > you are not able to access the pay records. > > Mike in Ohio > > DianeLeMasson wrote: >> Hi >> >> This is actually concerning Ancestry Library Edition at my library. >> Since I do not have a subscription I sometimes research Ancestry at >> my library. After checking the newest databases from my computer I >> wrote down what I needed to check out & to research. >> I actually map out the steps I need to find them again. >> >> U.S City Directories was one of them. I could not find it. It was not >> listed in the, Genealogy Databases Posted or Updated Recently, list, >> at my library. Either was the other database records I was interested in. >> >> However they are listed on their on line site, Ancestry.com, I check >> again >> when I got home. I made no mistake, I copied it correctly so have no idea >> why I couldn't find them at my library. >> >> Does anyone know, is it possible Ancestry Library Edition & Ancestry.com >> are different? I did try to find out on my own searching through >> Ancestry, I >> wasn't able to find anything pertaining to this. >> Your help will be greatly appreciated. >> Thank you! >> >> Diane