Pamela: There is a gentleman by the name of Rod Neep at www.archivecdbooks.com who is producing old books and records on Compact Discs at an unbelievably low cost, he has a few books on Lancashire, with more to come. This may not help your immediate quest but just might prove helpful in the future. I have found it extremely difficult for expatriots to conduct research from the far-flung corners of the empire but another help is membership in the Lancashire Family History & Heraldry society, they have a Preston Branch. Dennis in the Sunny British Columbia Rockies (an exiled Prestonian) [email protected] wrote: > Subject: > > ENG-LANCS-PRESTON-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 50 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Preston Directories [Pamela Sawyer <[email protected]>] > > > >