I think it depends on the area whether you're going to find a death date in a city directory. A listing for my great grandmother's first husband in the Minneapolis city directory which announced his death was my first clue to him. The Minneapolis directories even have listings for people who have moved within the year and give where they went. So don't give up on directories, even though it sounds like the PA ones aren't that informative. I'll never know because the Hazleton ones are on non-circulating microfilm....... Pam Oregon >>> <Vcah@cs.com> - 4/24/01 8:03 PM >>> In a message dated 4/24/01 9:13:36 PM Central Daylight Time, richreese@fast.net writes: Whoops! My error. The almanac was what I was thinking of - chalk it up to a "senior moment". Thanks for correcting me. Val << FYI if you expect to find death dates in a city directory, you'll not get anywhere. They were primarily marketing tools for direct mail. I will confess that I was shocked to actually find one in a Scranton directory once, one out of over 15,000 entries which I have transcribed from Scranton. None in Hazleton, Wilkes-Barre, or Schuylkill county, Pottsville, Reading or Harrisburg directories either. I just hope that you meant the newspaper (WB Record) almanac transcriptions. >> ______________________________