I suggest each serious researcher read the *lesson* on this website: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=831&key=A844101 The Ancestry Daily News is a free subscription. Each day a column by a professional genealogist is given, and from nearly every column, I learn something new. You may like to subscribe. Comment: I have used voter's lists only once, and that is because the genealogists in the State in which I live have compiled the 1890 voters registrations for the WHOLE state--to make up for the missing 1890 census. If any of my ancestors (or those of my spouse) lived in a city or a county [in some cases] where there was a city or county directory, I have tried to use the ones which may be available. I nearly always have success in those specific localities, and I encourage others to use city directories to make up for missing censuses, or, better, for missing ancestors whom you suspect may have lived in a well-populated area. Check the online catalogs of libraries in those states to see what may be available, particular in a filmed version, which you might be able to interlibrary loan. The city directories may even be in a large city library or a University library near you. Many of the older ones are on microfiche or microfilm. These are NOT telephone directories. E.W.Wallace Tell other list subscribers about this *lesson*.