Mary, thank you so much for staying with this! I know this will help me and many other people.....dianne >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:22:20 -0600 >From: "Mary R. Frank" <mrfrank@uwm.edu> >Subject: [WIMILWAU] Street name changes >To: Milwaukee Genealogy List <WIMILWAU@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <45AFC8EC.9070807@uwm.edu> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >OK, it turns out that Steve Morse has more detailed information on his >website about Milwaukee's street name changes. It doesn't show every >single address like the Wright's Directory Supplement, but it does show >the first house number for each renumbered block, with cross streets, so >a person can get a much better idea of where their folks would be >located on a current day map. Check it out when you have time. > >http://stevemorse.org/census/changes/MilwaukeeChanges2.htm > >If you are not familiar with Steve's work, you might want to go to his >regular web page and check out all the finding aids he has created to >help people such as on the Ellis Island site and a lot of other places. >I have found his forms and search engines very, very useful in the past: > >http://stevemorse.org/ > >He has info on street name changes all around the country: > >http://stevemorse.org/census/changes.html > > > > -- Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Marie Beyon Ray