Hi list, I have just been informed of a great new resource available for all of us to use. It is called the "City Directories of the United States" project. The goal of this project is to identify all known city directories (whether they're in book form, have been microfilmed, or have been transcribed and published online), their years, and their repositories. For example, the 1852/53 directory of San Francisco is available at the Family History Library, Brigham Young University, and online at <http://www.rootsweb.com/~casanfra/52menu.htm>. Currently, the database has the holdings of the following major repositories: 1) National Archives 2) Library of Congress 3) Family History Library 4) Brigham Young University 5) Alabama Department of History The goal is to eventually list the city directory holdings of all repositories in the United States. Possibly, your local library has a directory that exists nowhere else, or its whereabouts is unknown to other researchers. They would like to add it to the database. To help you submit information, they've provided an extraction form on the web site, just click on the Submit Information link from any page. The site can be found at http://www.uscitydirectories.com/ Hope you can find this useful! John