-----Original Message----- From: Diana Davis <ddavis@logicsouth.com> To: HODGES-L@rootsweb.com <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 12:50 PM Subject: [HODGES-L] City Directories ONLINE > CITY DIRECTORIES ONLINE ><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>> >======================================================= >Primary Source Media has launched a new site with City >Directories online. >There are currently directories for 99 cities for the year of >1859, with >plans to add more cities periodically, beginning in January 1999. >The >database "offers full-text searchability, making it possible for >the user to >search city directories using any word or string of words. For >example, you >can enter a last name, address, occupation, cultural or business >institution, and do a search across the entire database or on a >single >directory. In addition, you can view full facsimile images of >each directory >page, providing convenience, speed, and authenticity. >Advertisements and >city maps are also searchable - an important consideration for >art and >social historians as well as students of advertising and >consumerism." > >Although results for most of the cities can only be viewed by >subscribers, >Primary Source Media is offering free searches for Atlanta, >Chicago, >Galveston, Philadelphia, New York City, and Sacramento. Primary >Source Media >is also offering free, 30-day trials of our Online Products to >libraries >that wish to test the full online databases. > >For more information, visit the Web site at: >http://www.citydirectories.psmedia.com/ > >And for a great article on city directories, go to: >"City Directories: A Forest of Family Trees" by Leslie Corn >(A Professional Genealogist and Consultant at the New York >Genealogical and >Biographical Society) >http://www.citydirectories.psmedia.com/city/essay_main1.html > >Ancestry.com subscribers already have access to the following >directories. >Look for more in the near future as Ancestry is currently working >on adding >several more of these valuable resources. > >Directory of Nevada, 1862 >http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3318.htm > >New York City Directory, 1786 >http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3432.htm > >Philadelphia City Directory, 1890 >http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3346.htm > > > >Diana >email: ddavis@logicsouth.com >My Genealogical Website: http://www.my-ged.com/davis/ >Phillip Kime Descendants website: http://www.my-ged.com/kime > > > >==== HODGES Mailing List ==== >Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Archives help at: http://www.shelby.net/shelby/jr/robertsn/rwsearch.htm > > > > >