Oops! I thought I had sent this out on Tuesday, but I must have used the wrong email account, because it did not post. I have had a subscription to Fold3/Footnote for a couple of years - ever since Norm recommended the collection of New Orleans city directories. They have lots of material that pertains to my New Orleans people. (However, some locales, such as Connecticut where I work as a genealogy librarian, have much less coverage in the directories.) The military records (their primary focus since changing the name to Fold3) are fabulous. I have found 2 of my Confederate soldiers being released from prison camps, a certification of disability for my great-great-grandfather who served the Union from Missouri, and my great-great-great-grandfather enlisting with the Union (in New Orleans) - presumably because the Yankee-occupied city was under threat of Confederate assault? Interestingly, just a few months earlier, one of his sons enlisted in the CSA Army. (He was one of the prisoners whose release papers I found.) What they have are digitized images of actual documents, from the National Archives. A true treasure trove! I know that Ancestry costs an arm & leg already, but Fold3 is definitely worth the extra charge. Another relatively cheap premium service that has good New Orleans stuff is Genealogy Bank. They have a great collection of New Orleans newspapers. I have found some great stories - notably a murder/manslaughter trial involving some of my rumrunner peeps in the 1920s. Kathleen,in Connecticut, by way of New Orleans