Thank you Walter. This information is very interesting and will be useful in my research. Lillian Pappas ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:00 AM Subject: NYBROOKLYN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 17 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. REQUEST:Directory Look-up-HANNAH/HONORA REYNOLDS (Sheila Ploof) > 2. Re: Directory (J Torre) > 3. Police Demographics Unit Casts Shadows From Past > ([email protected]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:55:21 -0500 > From: Sheila Ploof <[email protected]> > Subject: [BKLYN] REQUEST:Directory Look-up-HANNAH/HONORA REYNOLDS > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]om> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > If anyone has access to City Directories, I would greatly appreciate a > look-up for HONORA/HANNAH REYNOLDS, especially for 1894 at 31 MONROE St., > but any year close to 1894 appreciated as well. > > I found a newspaper article, June 1894, relating that a Hannah Reynolds, > 84, laundress, fell 4 stories, relating her injuries, address, etc. Also > have a death date for a Hannah Reynolds, Aug. 1894. > > Trying to piece it together and figure out whether this Hannah is/was my > great-great grandmother. She was the widow of Martin Reynolds. (Not sure > whether Martin died in Ireland or the U.S.) Their children, that I know > of, > were Michael Reynolds, John Reynolds (my great grandfather) and Catherine > "Kate" Reynolds Conolly, wife of Thomas A. Conolly of Warren St., > Brooklyn. > > My thanks for reading this and for any possible assistance. > Sheila > Upstate NY > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:22:04 -0800 (PST) > From: J Torre <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [BKLYN] Directory > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Ditto -- directories are alphabetical by surname and sometimes also > business name.? They generally list only the head of household.? > Sometimes, I've seen a spouse's name in parentheses; for a woman?I've > sometimes seen (widow of ....).? Sometimes adults in the household?other > than the head?are listed separately.? The key word in it all is > "sometimes". > Also, like the censuses, spelling can be capricious. > ? > Nonetheless, I've found?directories very useful for tracking where?a > family lived from year to year, bracketing when someone died, etc. > > J Torre > >>Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:14:36 -0600 >>From: John Quigley <[email protected]> >> >>???Directories are in alphabetical order, so yes it will show people >>living at >>???that address but only in Alpha order, not by address. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:41:06 -0500 (EST) > From: [email protected] > Subject: [BKLYN] Police Demographics Unit Casts Shadows From Past > To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > NY Times has an article, with maps, about where the various ethnic > communities were in 1920 New York City. > > http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/police-demographics-unit-casts- > shadows-from-past/ > > If the above URL breaks-up, then try: > http://tinyurl.com/79s6t8y > > > I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. > > Regards, > > Walter Greenspan > Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the NYBROOKLYN list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the NYBROOKLYN mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of NYBROOKLYN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 17 > ***************************************** >