I have used the St. Albans Lists on microfilm at my local LDS library & found them to be a real wealth of info. The entries give the physical description of the person crossing the border. I was even able to learn that one person on my research tree had a gold tooth! The entries also give the purpose of the trip, how much currency the person was carrying with them, & whether they had travelled into the USA previously. I even enjoyed one fabulous stroke of luck when I found an entry for someone whose place on the family tree I was quite certain of. She stated that her purpose in entering the USA was to visit " her cousin," whose name & street address she gave, in Somerville, Massachusetts. Well, I had seen a US census entry for that cousin, living at that street address, but had not been totally sure that he belonged to our tree since he had a common surname & since the census entry had screwed up by failing to mention his Canadian place of birth. But the ages, names, etc. were right. Well, when I found his known cousin stating in the St. Albans record that he lived at that address, it cinched it, and it changed a "probably moved to Massachusetts" note to a definite fact. I just wish the coverage of the St. Albans records started earlier, but they are invaluable. Especially when you think of how many New Brunswickers moved to the US.