I have found all of my seven lines that were in Chicago; C has some great ideas for browsing thru these directories. I had managed to stumble thru them already. I did find many murdered surnames; typesetting/phonetics was bad.. But all in all it did reconstruct the years my family was here. --- On Mon, 3/30/09, Sam Koester <sammyk@surewest.net> wrote: > From: Sam Koester <sammyk@surewest.net> > Subject: Re: [IL-COOK-CHICAGO] Oops,sorry John > To: il-cook-chicago@rootsweb.com > Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 7:30 PM > Cher;  I have footnote.com and > so far have not found anything of use to me. > I would be happy to look up information for others if they > can give me > specifics.  Sam in CA