I would like to track down several because of the 20-year gap between 1880 and 1900 census records Barbara Southern California At 09:33 AM 3/29/07, you wrote: >Not sure about one in our time line but in the late 19th century/early >20th, there was one a year in the Cleveland, OH area. Assume that most >large cities had the same or similar time line in the USA. Ours listed >the person, street address and occupation. Many times the surname was >misspelled probably D/T illiteracy but still it assists one in tracking >their ancestors and their families if they remained in the same >area. Example: my g grandfather's name was misspelled but seeing the >spelling it assisted me in using the census, the railroad records, death >records, naturalization for him and various other family members. I >imagine it would also assist with passenger lists if there were various >spelling of the surname and even forms of the given name. > > Mary Ellen Chambers > Lakewood, Oh

You might try these two sites. Cyndislist has several listed, might be the area of your interest. The other site apparently has copies of the original directories for sale. http://www.cyndislist.com/citydir.htm http://www.uscitydirectories.com/ "The Ole Crow" Dick Crow "Retired & enjoying it!" rw.crow@verizon.net Cell: 603-490-0153 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara & George Grenier" <grenier@earthlink.net> To: <mdallega@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] City directories >I would like to track down several because of the 20-year gap between 1880 > and 1900 census records > > Barbara