Several e-mails I sent today evidently never went out...it's not even in my "sent" file.There were way too many photos in my inbox and that gummed up the works...so I'll briefly respond to each message again all in one post. Mary Frank, I'll look forward to hearing a hopefully positive response ref the copyright! You really are amazing...to have done that so quickly! I'd have to fiddle with how I'd do it but I think I could fit the whole thing on my website if I downsize my other things a bit. Hopefully the pages will show right on the site but if nothing else, Zip files should work. Ellen, I found your site several years ago and absolutely love it. You've put so much great info up there! I did go back to look again and see I'd forgotten you had the formula for the North, South , East and West designations. I did recall the street name changes there...when I first saw that page several years ago it helped me with a couple of street changes. In one case the street changed but the house number didn't. I'd thought it odd that they moved to a different house with the same number...just on a different street...lol Thanks to your site I figured out they hadn't moved even one foot. The name changed! I love the map showing the different wards! Of course what I really need at the moment, is a way to figure out the house number changes. In the e-mail that my computer ate before sending I asked if you or anyone knows how many times the house numbers were changed and when. I also wonder if they all changed at once or if the city did it one area at a time. The poor mail carriers... John Magie, thank you for the kind words. I've found so much good information on websites...it's really good to know I may be able to do something that would help other people. No, I didn't know about other changes...I suspected it had happened more than once...(see 2 lines up...lol) Thank you for the heads up on that one. My earliest Milwaukee immigrant came over around 1849-50 as far as I can tell....but I don't think I have any addresses on any of them until 1870...so I guess the 1865 wouldn't really affect me. Thank heaven! It's still very interesting to me...I'm a history nut. It would be very helpful for those of us who are stuck with only censuses and can't access city directories to know what changes happened between each census. I have a fantasy of having large overlay maps of Milwaukee from different decades. ...you could actually see where streets disapeared, were born, or renamed. A girl (ok, a grandmother!) can dream! If an e-mail does show up on list with a lot of the same comments as above, I'm sorry!!! Thanks to ALL of you......dianne -- 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