Kit666Har@aol.com wanted to know whether anyone was searching persons named Harris who lived in Knoxville, TN. She gave a rather late date, but AOL knocked me off and I lost the message (as seems common these days--is it our cable system or is it AOL or is it operator-error?) Anyway, with folks who live or did live in a rather large, active city or county, always aim for locating city directories. These are NOT telephone directories. These directories were compiled mainly for tradespeople, but as people-finders they are great. They are published more frequently than censuses. Some of them are of late date. In fact, I think CindisList has a website for directories. If not, do a google.com search and see what you can find. For Knoxville, TN, directories, however, do this: Go to the Family History Library catalog on www.familysearch.org Do a Place search for Knoxville (or any other city or county where you are searching). Go down the list of topics and see whether there is a topic entitled Directories. For Knoxville, there are 26 films of city directories (how lucky can you get?) If there is an LDS family history center near you, see if you can borrow the films for appropriate years for your family from the FHL Library in Salt Lake City. There will be a fee at your local FHC and perhaps a longish wait, as I see some of the films are in the vault, meaning they are not housed in the library itself. The online censuses are improperly indexed for the most part, and some searchers are frustrated (me included) because of misinterpretations of either the indexer or the census-taker himself (leaving off the final s in my surname, for example). One FHC patron I helped at our local FHC was able to find her German people in Cincinnati by using some of the available filmed directories, and she walked out of the FHC that afternoon walking on Cloud 9 (am I dating myself by using that term?) Remember--good people-finder - directories (even for small towns and for some counties) Also look in the last sections of the directories--there may be a reverse directory. That is, the address may be given, and then boarders, widowed mothers, or some other folks may be listed at the same address you find in the front section for the employed person. I was able to help a Canadian resident find her Pittsburgh ancestors in directories, and she was able to complete her DAR application. People are where you find them! E.W.Wallace who tries to use whatever record may exist for my ancestors