Margaret, I haven't been paying enough attention to your posts, but I can get to the library this afternoon and look at papers. Can you give me time frames, specifics and names of what you are looking for? Also, Nancy's site has a lot of Sac City Directories online. The names do not show up in the search engine on her site, but she has them indexed quite nicely by alphabet. We will be adding more as I have time (after the election). http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sacindex.html Betty > Again, thanks to everyone for all this good information about "Sole > Traders." The Boslers lived in Sacramento, in fact John W. Bosler and > George B. Schwartz were in the butcher shop business in Sacramento > in the > 1850-1860s. The building burned, destroying everything. I will > have to > let all the Sacramento research go as I live in Humboldt County and > will > not be able to travel to Sacramento to finish this project. Thanks to > everyone, you are all very helpful, as usual. Margaret in NW > California