Most of their city directories are on microfilm. The original city directory books were located on the far left wall as you come in the door. That is where all the genealogy reference materials were kept. If they're reorganizing now, they might be elsewhere. The last time I was there was about five months ago. The census records are also on microfilm as is most everything else there. One problem I've found is that some of their microfilm reels are missing, scratched, and broken and their microfilm readers should be trashed because many are broken and don't get repaired as quickly as we'd like. However, their viewing policy is very lax and there's no sign in required (at least before now). They do have indices for some of the newspapers like The Washington Post, but I don't know how far back they go. I never had much luck finding what I wanted. Sometimes the person's name wasn't listed in their index, but I would find it in the newspaper using other sources such as burial dates. -----Original Message----- From: Bice, Nancy [mailto:nabice@venable.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:58 PM To: WashingtonDC-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [WashingtonDC'' ] 1931 Newspaper Article from the Washington Post I believe so, but I am not 100% sure. Here is the link to the library's site.; maybe it will help you. http://www.dclibrary.org/mlk/ I got the sense today that they are doing some kind of reorganization of the geneological section of the library (3rd floor), but they were very busy and didn't have time to answer very many questions. I do plan on returning to get a better idea of exactly what they have. I did see that they have at least some census info on microfiche and lots of newspapers. They had sporadic city directories on the shelf - some were in very bad shape with pages missing (I say sporadic because there were also years missing). I was told by someone else that they own some census index books, but I did not see any and did not get an opportunity to ask. -----Original Message----- From: Cecinit@aol.com [mailto:Cecinit@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 3:06 PM To: WashingtonDC-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WashingtonDC'' ] 1931 Newspaper Article from the Washington Post Are there indices of Washington Post articles from before '77? Many newspapers produce(d) these indices and sold them to libraries and other parties. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 *********************************************************************** This electronic mail transmission may contain confidential or privileged information. If you believe you have received the message in error, please notify the sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or disclosing it. *********************************************************************** ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237