This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4033.1 Message Board Post: I have the Seattle City Directories for 1918, 1929, 1938, and 1942. Jay M. French (or J. M. French) is not listed in any of those directories. He might have been living outside the city limits, but I don't see him in the 1930 census anywhere in Washington State. I presume he was the Jay M. French, 31 years old, single, born in Minnesota, living in a boarding house in Ballard (an area of Seattle in that period known for its large population of Scandanavian immigrants and their /descendants), in the 1920 census. If he continued to live in laboring class boarding houses in Seattle, perhaps the City Directory canvassers didn't include the names of those residents or missed them because they were at work.