CITY DIRECTORIES ONLINE
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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:  [email protected]
My Genealogical Website:  http://www.my-ged.com/davis/
Phillip Kime Descendants website: http://www.my-ged.com/kime


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