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