Hi, gang, The Buffalo Address Book & Family Directories, published annually from about 1880 to 1916, are gradually coming online at WNYlegacy.org. Why should you care? For house researchers, they are irreplaceable. They are the first directories in Buffalo to contain a reverse address section. That means you can look up a street and all the house numbers and who lives in them. Regular Buffalo city (Polk) directories did not do this until 1930 or so. You can also look people up the old fashioned way, by last name. Just one caveat, though. Being social directories, they had a distinct bias. Immigrant & working class neighborhoods-- basically the East Side--were not included. See: http://www.wnylegacy.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2FVTP003 If this link does not work, go to: http://www.wnylegacy.org/ Use the "Select a Collection" drop-down menu to choose Buffalo Address Books. This online collection was made possible by a collaborative microfilming project by the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society & the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, with digitizing & OCR by the Western NY Library Resources Council. *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com http://www.BuffaloResearch.com "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living. City living by its definition is crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates." --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)

Great, Everybit helps. The one I looked at had a list of teachers by school. --- Cynthia Van Ness <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, gang, > > The Buffalo Address Book & Family Directories, > published > annually from about 1880 to 1916, are gradually > coming online at > WNYlegacy.org. Why should you care? For house > researchers, > they are irreplaceable. They are the first > directories in > Buffalo to contain a reverse address section. That > means you > can look up a street and all the house numbers and > who lives in > them. Regular Buffalo city (Polk) directories did > not do this > until 1930 or so. > > You can also look people up the old fashioned way, > by last name. > > Just one caveat, though. Being social directories, > they had a > distinct bias. Immigrant & working class > neighborhoods-- > basically the East Side--were not included. See: > > http://www.wnylegacy.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2FVTP003 > > If this link does not work, go to: > > http://www.wnylegacy.org/ > > Use the "Select a Collection" drop-down menu to > choose Buffalo > Address Books. > > This online collection was made possible by a > collaborative > microfilming project by the Buffalo & Erie County > Historical > Society & the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, > with > digitizing & OCR by the Western NY Library Resources > Council. > > > *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* > Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com > http://www.BuffaloResearch.com > > "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here > wants city living. City living by its definition is > crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is > dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a > hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit > from the collective energy that a city generates." > --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007) > > ------------------------------- > 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 message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

Great to look at but I cannot seem to make the search option work. I put in names that I can see on a page and it still returned a message saying that name cannot be found. How can I make the search feature work? Thanx, Nelson > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:04:07 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [NYERIE] Buffalo Address Books gradually coming online > > Hi, gang, > > The Buffalo Address Book & Family Directories, published > annually from about 1880 to 1916, are gradually coming online at > WNYlegacy.org. Why should you care? For house researchers, > they are irreplaceable. They are the first directories in > Buffalo to contain a reverse address section. That means you > can look up a street and all the house numbers and who lives in > them. Regular Buffalo city (Polk) directories did not do this > until 1930 or so. > > You can also look people up the old fashioned way, by last name. > > Just one caveat, though. Being social directories, they had a > distinct bias. Immigrant & working class neighborhoods-- > basically the East Side--were not included. See: > > http://www.wnylegacy.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2FVTP003 > > If this link does not work, go to: > > http://www.wnylegacy.org/ > > Use the "Select a Collection" drop-down menu to choose Buffalo > Address Books. > > This online collection was made possible by a collaborative > microfilming project by the Buffalo & Erie County Historical > Society & the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, with > digitizing & OCR by the Western NY Library Resources Council. > > > *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* > Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com > http://www.BuffaloResearch.com > > "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living. City living by its definition is crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates." --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007) > > ------------------------------- > 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 message _________________________________________________________________ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser.msn.com/

The search feature doesn't work because the OCR (optical character recognition) hasn't been done yet. But you can browse them the same way you would by pulling one off the shelf and opening to a random page. Click on any page number, read the page to see where you are in the alphabet, and browse forward or back accordingly. --- "Nelson W. Metke" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great to look at but I cannot seem to make the search option > work. I put in names that I can see on a page and it still > returned a message saying that name cannot be found. How can > I make the search feature work? > > Thanx, > > Nelson > > > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:04:07 -0700 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > > Subject: [NYERIE] Buffalo Address Books gradually coming > online > > > > Hi, gang, > > > > The Buffalo Address Book & Family Directories, published > > annually from about 1880 to 1916, are gradually coming > online at > > WNYlegacy.org. Why should you care? For house researchers, > > they are irreplaceable. They are the first directories in > > Buffalo to contain a reverse address section. That means > you > > can look up a street and all the house numbers and who lives > in > > them. Regular Buffalo city (Polk) directories did not do > this > > until 1930 or so. > > > > You can also look people up the old fashioned way, by last > name. > > > > Just one caveat, though. Being social directories, they had > a > > distinct bias. Immigrant & working class neighborhoods-- > > basically the East Side--were not included. See: > > > > http://www.wnylegacy.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2FVTP003 > > > > If this link does not work, go to: > > > > http://www.wnylegacy.org/ > > > > Use the "Select a Collection" drop-down menu to choose > Buffalo > > Address Books. > > > > This online collection was made possible by a collaborative > > microfilming project by the Buffalo & Erie County Historical > > Society & the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, with > > digitizing & OCR by the Western NY Library Resources > Council. > > > > > > > *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* > > Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com > > http://www.BuffaloResearch.com > > > > "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city > living. City living by its definition is crowded. It is > tolerant of other people. It is dependent on a sophisticated > population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they > can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates." > --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007) > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 message > > _________________________________________________________________ > Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! > http://biggestloser.msn.com/ > > ------------------------------- > 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 message > *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com http://www.BuffaloResearch.com "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living. City living by its definition is crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates." --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)