This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACI/1993 Message Board Post: In recent years I have been searching the Bay City directories for information. I have accumulated some details that might be helpful to other researchers. The following resources have Bay City Directories in book or microfilm formats for the years included. Michigan State Library: 1873-1874, 1877-1878, 1879-1880, 1881-1882, 1883, 1884-1885, 1889-1890, 1890-1891, 1896, 1897, 1899-1900, 1902-1903. HeritageQuest online: 1873-1874, 1877-1878, 1881-1882, 1884-1885, 1890-1891, 1897, 1899-1900, 1902-1903, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914-1915, 1916-1917. Chicago Newberry Library: 1873-1874, 1877-1878, 1881-1882, 1884-1885, 1889-1890, 1890-1891, 1896, 1899-1900, 1906, 1911, 1913, 1914-1915. Bay County Historical Society: 1866-1867, 1868-1869, 1873-1874, 1875-1876, 1877-1878, 1879-1880, 1881-1882, 1883, 1884-1885, 1886-1887, 1889-1890, 1891-1892, 1893-1894, 1895, 1896, 1902-1903. Allen County Public Library: 1883, 1886, 1887-1888, 1893-1894, 1895, 1896, 1899-1900, 1901! -1902, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1910-1911, 1914-1915, 1916-1917, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935. Bay County Public Library: 1866-77, 1873-74, 1874, 1875-76, 1877-78, 1879-80, 1881-82, 1883, 1884-5, 1886, 1887-88, 1889-90, 1890-91, 1892-92, 1893-94, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1899-1900, 1901-1902, 1902-03, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914-15, 1916-17, 1920-21, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1953-54, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977-78, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989-90, and yearly to present. It appears that no directory was published for these years: 1898, 1905, 1912, 1918, 1919, 1921, 1923.