Where can we find the city directory on-line? Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: <philly-roots-request@rootsweb.com> To: <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:02 AM Subject: PHILLY-ROOTS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 112 > > > When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to > which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. > Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides > with the message subject to which you are replying. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: City Directory listing question (Lani) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:03:32 -0500 > From: Lani <LaniMacA@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] City Directory listing question > To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <a06110402c21d3ed11b03@[71.224.36.137]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > Jim, > > No fee was charged/collected to be listed in the Phila. City > Directories. To be listed you had to be employed or a head of > household (employed or not). Neither age nor gender were a > criterion. I believe that widows were listed as such for only one or > two years after their husband's death, after which they were listed > (as long as they remained head of household or employed) without the > notation "wid. X." > -- > Lani > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the PHILLY-ROOTS list administrator, send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the PHILLY-ROOTS mailing list, send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of PHILLY-ROOTS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 112 > ******************************************** > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.11/723 - Release Date: 3/15/2007 > 11:27 AM > >