With many thanks to Mary for bringing this URL to our attention, if you fiddle with it and change it to http://www.ls.net/~newriver/md/ you can dig furthur. Bill in NJ Macago@aol.com wrote: > This page is for Thomson's Mercantile & Professional Directory, Baltimore > City 1851 & 1852. > http://www.ls.net/~newriver/md/mdthom1851.htm > > It has everything listed from agents, photographers, merchants, umbrella > dealers, florists, hotels keepers, silver ware manufactuers, book binders, > womens shoe makers, you name it. It is a real whose who of the city. > > Hope you find one of your ancestors listed there! > Mary > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > Please make sure the options in your E mail program disables quoting the > message in HTML when posting to any Roots-L mailing list.