WOW :-)! You found a Great Treasure :-)!!! Could you Please see which of the ROUSE families were still residing in Ravenna in 1888 ? The other family connected with them would be the HINDS . I'll keep my fingers & toes crossed :-)! Thank-you for your generous offer :-)! Janet :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Rhinehart" <rhinehartroots@yahoo.com> To: <OHPORTAG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:02 AM Subject: [OHPORTAG] Ravenna city directory, published 1888, lookups offered > Hey gang. I recently acquired a copy of the 1888 Cleveland area Blue > Book on CD. It is a city directory featuring several different cities > in northeast Ohio. Among them, it features Ravenna. Ravenna is the > only city in Portage county that is featured on this CD. I bought it > hoping to find some of my family, but I haven't found any of them in there. > It is not a complete city directory (since none of my family is there), > but it does have many of the families living in Ravenna in 1888. > > It appears to give the head of the family, the wife and any children > living there. It also gives the street they were living on. This could > be helpful since the 1890 census was destroyed. This was published > just two years before the census. > > I'm offering to do some look ups if anyone is interested. > > Brian > > P.S. I just changed my email address-- I used to be SpruceGuy@aol.com. > I am now RhinehartRoots@yahoo.com. > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail > > > ==== OHPORTAG Mailing List ==== > Web page with info for this list - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/OH/portage.html > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >