Found on another list: >Source: GRATTIDGE@rootsweb.com >Subject: [GRATTIDGE] Directories > > >It's time someone stirred so I thought I would mention an intriguing >site that some might not know of and could find useful. >www.historicaldirectories.org contains the contents of a large >number of local and trade directories (mostly 19th century) which >are very searchable. Did we know, for instance, that William Piggott >was a schoolmaster in Findern (Glover's Directory of Derbyshire >1829) or that John Grattidge traded as Eagles and Grattidge, gun >implement makers, back of 19 Ann St Birmingham (Pigot & Co Directory >of Derbys, Dorset ... 1842) and later at 138 and a half, Snow Hill >(History of Birmingham 1849)? How about that for impressive >addresses. And can someone identify the Frederick Robert Grattidge >trading as F R Grattidge & Co, 17 Taylor St, as wholesale grocers >according to Slater's Manchester etc Directory 1908? Joe Bissett, PIGGOTT/CUMMISKEY List Administrator/Rootsweb I use America's Book CDs in my genealogical research to access otherwise unavailable primary source material. http://www.abcd-usa.com/ I support the Godfrey Memorial Library. http://www.godfrey.org/ Proud to be a member of LostCousins! http://www/LostCousins.com