dear Bill, I appreciated your help very much. I am curious whether you ever got an estimate from CPL on the cost of your copies? Thanks Ginny ----- Original Message ----- From: "rnbill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 1:13 PM Subject: Genealogy/city directory question > Dear Ginny > > I saw your posting about a source for the city directory listings. I > have had very good luck with the Cuyahoga County Archives. However, > many of the years that I was interested in are too fragile to be > photocopied. When you contact the Archives, include your snail mail > address so that they can send you the photocopy of the applicable pages. > > The Archives referred me to the Cleveland Public Library for the edition > years that are too fragile to copy. Most unfortunately, the CPL seems > to only go so far as to inform me that my request is larger that their > limit for that department and they are referring it to the publication > section and they will contact me in the near future to inform me of the > costs. Then silence. Has happened twice. Will have to contact them > and do a little prodding. > > Here is my contact results with CPL. > > Subject: > Re: Request for copies > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:34:46 -0400 > From: "Microform Center" <[email protected]> > Organization: Cleveland Public Library > To: rnbill <[email protected]> > References: 1 > > Hello Mr. Dalton, > > Your request is beyond the limits of what the Microform Center is > capable of doing. Therefore, we have sent your request to the > Photoduplication Department. They will be contacting you with an > estimate of the cost. > > Pete Elwell > Microform Center > Cleveland Public Library > > The address for the County Archives is: > [email protected] > Another very useful source for obituary information in Cleveland is > CLENIX. You can order photocopies of obituaries. They are for only a > specific time frame though. So far, I have not been billed for any > requests. > Fairview Park Regional Library > 21255 Lorain Road > Fairfield, OH 44126-2120 > Send a SASE and you will get the copies promptly. > > The URL for the Cleveland Public Library is www.cpl.org/CLENIX. You > search for the name, copy the informaiton and send that information in > your request to the Fairview branch. > > Bill Dalton > >