Canada and Alaska New Pages and Updates

I'm so excited to tell you that I have listed every link to all the directories found at Peel's Prairie Provinces and The Recents websites, which cover Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, with a little bit of Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and Ontario! Oh, yes, and one update for Alaska.

Thanks to readers Diane Rogers and Marina Crawford for the links to Peel's and The Recents.

New Pages:

Lethbridge, Alberta - with 31 links

Medicine Hat and Redcliff, Alberta - with 28 links

Brandon, Manitoba - with 36 links

Winnipeg, Manitoba - with 15 links

Northwest Territories - with five links

Updates:

Alaska - three new links from USGenWeb

Alberta - total of 13 links; plus links to five cities/regions

Calgary, Alberta - total of 55 links

Didsbury Region, Alberta - total of 15 links

Edmonton, Alberta - total of 64 links

British Columbia - two new links; page is still under construction

Manitoba - total of 15 links; plus links to two cities

Ontario - one new link from Peel's Prairie Provinces

Saskatchewan - total of 19 links

New Pages and Updates

I've got a hodgepodge of new pages and updates...a variety of locations and a variety of resources!

New Pages:

Calhoun County, Alabama - with one link from BYU Digital Books

Madison County, Alabama - with one link from USGenWeb

Marengo County, Alabama - with one link from USGenWeb

Ireland - with one link from EveNDon

Wales - with 14 links from Bangor Civic Society

Wood County, Wisconsin - with three links from EveNDon

Wyoming - with one county linked

Sheridan County, Wyoming - with one link from USGenWeb


Updates:

Alabama - now with four linked counties

Jefferson County, Alabama - two links from Google Books

Alaska - two new links from Historic Map Works

Calhoun County, Michigan - one new link from Historic Map Works

United Kingdom - now with two linked countries

Wisconsin - now with nine linked counties

Milwaukee County, Wisconsin - one link from EveNDon

More WI New Pages and Updates

Wisconsin has some amazing collections of online directories! I've been having fun adding them to the site!

New Pages:

Rock County, Wisconsin - with 32 links from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections!


Updates:

Winnebago County, Wisconsin - added 33 links from the Oshkosh Public Library, one link from the Winnebago County Jan Digs Project, three links from the Neenah Public Library, and 13 links from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. One of these links includes a
house renumbering calculator for Oshkosh addresses that existed 1908 - 1957.

There are now eight linked counties on the Wisconsin page. Happy hunting!

CA and WI New Pages and Updates

I've added some California and Wisconsin pages and updated another California page:

New Pages:

Calaveras County, California - with one link from the Golden Nugget Library

Stanislaus County, California - with one link from the Golden Nugget Library

Tuolumne County, California - with one link from the Golden Nugget Library

Calumet County, Wisconsin - with two links from Calumet and Sheboygan County Page

Milwaukee County, Wisconsin - with five links from Links to the Past

Sheboygan County, Wisconsin - with two links from Calumet and Sheboygan County Page

Updates:

San Joaquin County, California - added four links from the Golden Nugget Library; there are more coming!

Thanks to Sheri Fenley and Barbara Bradley Petura for their tips to these great California and Wisconsin directories!

NY Updates - New York City/Brooklyn

Yesterday, I updated the New York City page with 11 links to Brooklyn directories from the Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page, 32 links to Long Island community directories from the Longwood Genealogy Group, and one link to a Brooklyn directory from Historic Map Works.

You will notice that the link to the directory from Historic Map Works is listed as "Free*". This, of course, means that it is free with some stipulations. In order to view directories (and maps) at Historic Map Works, you must register (for free). This will give you 10 free credits allowing you to view 10 directories on the site. After you have used your 10 credits, you may either purchase more in increments of $10.00 each (each credit is worth 10 cents), or by purchasing a monthly subscription of $29.95 or a yearly one of $249.95. More info on rates is available here, and a list of available directories is here.

Thanks to reader Joy Rich for these links. There are many more to be added to this page in the future!

CO New Page - Larmier County

I have added Larimer County to the list of Colorado counties linked, for a total of 12 Colorado counties now online! Please remember that these county pages are not complete, and there will be many more links added to these pages from various websites, as well as many more counties added, as time permits.

The Larmier County page has 79 links to directories covering 1902 to 2002! These are all from the Fort Collins History Connection website. It took me about three days to get this page all set up and linked. Why so long? Every time I find a directory resource, I do try to go and visit every directory's link and find the publisher, verify the year, and see if the directory covers more than just the location listed in its title. Sometimes this takes quite a bit of time, because the title page will be quite a ways into the directory and I have to browse page by page until I find it. Sometimes, it just doesn't exist because the directory is old and the first few pages are missing, or the institution or individual who scanned or transcribed the directory didn't bother to scan or transcribe the publishing info.

Thanks to Joe Beine for telling me about the directories listed in the Fort Collins History Connection. Joe has a site full of wonderful links himself; please visit it here.

TX New Pages

Thanks to reader Vickie Everhart, I was able to find two websites full of Texas city and county directories, and was thus able to add 13 counties to my Texas page, for a total of 15 linked counties!

New Pages:

Bexar County, Texas - with one link from David Gray's People Finder

Cooke County, Texas - with one link from David Gray's People Finder

Dallas County, Texas - with 10 links from Dallas County Texas Archives and two from David Gray's People Finder

Galveston County, Texas - with two links from David Gray's People Finder

Grayson County, Texas - with one link from David Gray's People Finder

Harris County, Texas - with two links from David Gray's People Finder

Lamar County, Texas - with one link from David Gray's People Finder

McLennan County, Texas - with one link from David Gray's People Finder

Navarro County, Texas - with one link from David Gray's People Finder

Parker County, Texas - with one link from David Gray's People Finder

Robertson County, Texas - with one link from David Gray's People Finder

Tarrant County, Texas - with two links from David Gray's People Finder

Travis County, Texas - with two links from David Gray's People Finder


Updates:

El Paso County, Texas - one link from David Gray's People Finder

IL New Pages and Updates

Lots of links from EveNDon!

New Pages:

Bureau County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon

Cass County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon

Champaign County, Illinois - with eight links from EveNDon

Coles County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon

Douglas County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon

Edgar County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon

Macon County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon

Mason County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon

McHenry County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon

Menard County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon

Sangamon County, Illinois - with two links from EveNDon

Shelby County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon

Woodford County, Illinois - with one link from EveNDon


Updates:

Illinois - two new statewide links from EveNDon; now 19 counties linked!

Cook County, Illinois - 13 links from EveNDon

AL and AR New Pages

I've added two new state pages to the United States page, Alabama and Arkansas, plus I've added some linked counties:

Jefferson County, Alabama - with one link from Google Books

Hempstead County, Arkansas - with one link from Ouiser's Arkansas History

Pulaski County, Arkansas - with one link from Ouiser's Arkansas History

CA New Pages and Updates

I added many links for California directories from the San Francisco Genealogy and the Golden Nugget Library websites.

New Pages:

Sacramento County, California - with one link from San Francisco Genealogy

San Joaquin County, California - with one link from San Francisco Genealogy

Updates:

California - one link from Golden Nugget Library; total of 10 counties now linked

Alameda County, California - one link each from San Francisco Genealogy, Golden Nugget Library, and the Bancroft Library

San Francisco County, California - 20 links from San Francisco Genealogy, six from Golden Nugget Library, and one from the Bancroft Library

Oklahoma - corrected county name from Becker to Beckham

DC, GA, WA, BC, and ID New Pages and Updates

Here are the latest updates and new pages. I added a few links for the District of Columbia and Georgia from the EveNDon website, then switched to Ancestry and USGenWeb to add all I could find on my home state, Washington, with a few links from neighboring Idaho and British Columbia. I do intend to go back and finish adding all the EveNDon links for the rest of the states, but it's nice sometimes to mix things up a little.

Speaking of EveNDon, I noticed when I was on the site earlier that there is a memorial to Eve, who passed away June 30th. How sad! She and Don have given the genealogical community such a gift by uploading these directories to their site and not charging at all to view them. The site does take donations, so I encourage you to donate something as a way of giving back to the genealogical community.

Some good news: The Got Genealogy? website has declared the Online City, County, and Rural Directory Site their July 2009 Site of the Month! I stumbled upon this great website a while ago doing a Google search for city directories and found Lisa's helpful free online newsletter on that topic. I wrote more about Got Genealogy? on my other blog here. Check it out! I'm sure you'll love all the goodies at Got Genealogy?!

I added all the Washington State directories that I could find anywhere online...mostly at Ancestry and USGenWeb sites. I believe that I have 99% of the directories available online for this state now linked on my site. There are probably a few out there that might be "hidden": Pacific Coast directories or British Columbia directories that might have some listings for Washington residents. I'll keep my eye out. Meantime, if you have ancestors or relatives from Washington State, enjoy the links! I am disappointed that there are not more free sites that contain Washington directories (most are linked to Ancestry). However, do not forget that the Washington State Digital Archives are preparing to upload many Polk directories for Washington communities to their website, hopefully in September. Volunteers are needed; if you would like to help this project along, check out this post I wrote in May.

New Pages

Fulton County, Georgia - with one link from EveNDon

Richmond County, Georgia - with one link from EveNDon

Bingham County, Idaho - with one link from Ancestry

Kootenai County, Idaho - with 12 links from Ancestry

Clallam County, Washington - with seven links from Ancestry

Cowlitz County, Washington - with four links from Ancestry

Franklin County, Washington - with one link from a USGenWeb site

Island County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry

Jefferson County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry

Kitsap County, Washington - with five links from Ancestry

Kittitas County, Washington - with five links from Ancestry

Lewis County, Washington - with four links from Ancestry

Lincoln County, Washington - with one link from a USGenWeb site

Mason County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry

San Juan County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry

Skagit County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry and two from USGenWeb sites

Snohomish County, Washington - with five links from Ancestry and two from USGenWeb sites

Spokane County, Washington - with 13 links from Ancestry

Thurston County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry

Yakima County, Washington - with four links from USGenWeb sites


Updates

Articles - added two articles; one by Lisa B. Lee and another by Phyllis Matthews Ziller. There are now 16 links to articles that you can read to help you understand how useful city directories are and how to best utilize them in your genealogical research!

British Columbia - one link from Ancestry

District of Columbia - three links from EveNDon

Georgia - four counties total now linked

Idaho - three counties total now linked

Washington - 20 counties total now linked

King County, Washington - with 20 links from Ancestry and one from a USGenWeb site

Pierce County, Washington - with 20 links from Ancestry

Whatcom County, Washington - 11 links from Ancestry, 14 from USGenWeb sites, and one from the InternetArchive

No Updates Lately?

I haven't updated the site recently for several reasons. I've been busy with family responsibilities, and when I've had time on the computer, I have been working on two other blogs, my main genealogy blog, AnceStories, and my local genealogical society blog, the EWGS blog. Also, if you haven't already discovered it, there's a brand spanking new social networking site just for genealogists called GenealogyWise and I've been busy checking it out! You can "friend" me here.

I promise I'll be back to work on the site soon, and as always, appreciate your patience!

CA, CO, and CT New Pages and Updates

Lots more links from EveNDon!

New Pages:

Contra Costa County, California - with two links from Ancestry and one from EveNDon

Boulder County, Colorado - with one link from EveNDon

Cheyenne County, Colorado - with one link from EveNDon

Clear Creek County, Colorado - with one link from EveNDon

Gilpin County, Colorado - with one link from EveNDon

Jefferson County, Colorado - with one link from EveNDon

Kit Carson County, Colorado - with one link from EveNDon

Las Animas County, Colorado - with one link from EveNDon

Pueblo County, Colorado - with one link from EveNDon

Weld County, Colorado - with one link from EveNDon

Updates:

California - one link from EveNDon

Alameda County, California - two links from EveNDon

San Francisco County, California - seven links from EveNDon

San Mateo County, California - one link from EveNDon

Colorado - one link from EveNDon

Denver County, Colorado - one link from EveNDon

Connecticut - three links from EveNDon

Hartford County, Connecticut - one link from EveNDon

New Haven County, Connecticut - one link from EveNDon