To Bob Doerr: Wow, what a ton of work you have put into this project, Bob! Thanks so much for making research of the 1860 directory of St. Louis possible for folks who research St. Louis from afar. I have been helping a lady who is researching her Irish family that moved to St. Louis from Ireland and she is thrilled to see her family listed there. Bob, do you know the date that the information in the directory was taken? Is there a date of publication on the directory? Thanks so much for all of the work you have done to transcribe the directory and put it on line, Bob! 'Tis a genealogical treat! Diane Shaw

Hi Thanks for all the kind words, from coast to coast! I do not know when the data for the 1860 directory were gathered. I have been thinking about that factor and my guess is that Kennedy hired a fairly small team; if so, data collection was protracted. Further, no doubt, many of the thousands of boarders moved during the interval between data collection and publication. Pity the guys who had to hand-set the type for some 55 thousand entries. (And almost every abbreviation had its period at its end.) That alone means that considerable time passed between data collection and publication. But it took my spare time for the summer of 2000 to clean up the engraved title page. BTW, that page is the same one used for 1859; there is a determinative scratch.. There are some patterns. There are a fair number of cases in which an entry lacks a given name; these are almost all for boarders, and, no doubt, someone else reported to the canvasser., e.g., "Mr. Doe down the hall is a blacksmith." A good telegrapher was able to recognize the 'fist' of the one whose dots and dashes (or dits and dahs) he was receiving. However, despite a few noticeable characteristics, I have been unable so far to distinguish any individual canvasser. It might be different were I to have the data arranged by location. I did not digitize the first 15 or so pages (mostly ads) and may have missed the date of publication, but I am keeping a record of items to review against the microfiche, and will look. My great-grandfather is listed as Daorr. Again, I cannot say too much good about the microform scanner. It has obsoleted reader/printers, and I hope libraries see the benefit so that this fine device becomes available wherever microforms are kept. It meets my key specifications: no display on the peripheral and all controls are from the computer mouse and keyboard. Bob Doerr in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks Sole surviving founding officer, Missouri Chapter, Nature Conservancy, 1956 http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/missouri/ Editor, since 1992, Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal http://www.mosga.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane" <lilirish@earthlink.net> To: <mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:45 AM Subject: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Thanks to Bob Doerr > To Bob Doerr: > > Wow, what a ton of work you have put into this project, Bob! Thanks so > much for making research of the 1860 directory of St. Louis possible for > folks who research St. Louis from afar. I have been helping a lady who > is researching her Irish family that moved to St. Louis from Ireland and > she is thrilled to see her family listed there. > > Bob, do you know the date that the information in the directory was > taken? Is there a date of publication on the directory? > > Thanks so much for all of the work you have done to transcribe the > directory and put it on line, Bob! > > 'Tis a genealogical treat! > > Diane Shaw > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.2/967 - Release Date: 8/22/2007 > 6:51 PM > >