I just wrote a new blog post about this on the D-OGS website here (http://www.ncgenweb.us/dogsnc/bransons-north-carolina-business-directory) Back in January at the CIG meeting Nerissa mentioned Branson’s North Carolina Business Directory, Volume 7, for the year 1890 that has been digitized at Google books as a genealogy gem. This historical directory is organized alphabetically by county and gives information on the county, names of the towns and post offices, county and town officers and magistrates, churches, ministers, hotels, lawyers, manufacturers, tradesmen, mines, mills, newspapers, merchants, schools, physicians, farmers, teachers, and so on. It also contains a list of railroads and an index to advertisements found throughout the book. These books are fully searchable and several have already been digitized by UNC and uploaded to the internet archives website. Click here (http://tinyurl.com/2f73566) to access a list of available titles ranging from 1867 – 1896. Ginger