CA New Pages and Updates

California, here we come! I've been busy adding links to California directories found at Ancestry and elsewhere. There are many, many more to be added, not just from these resources, but from around the Internet. If you don't see the county of your choice listed, or the group of years listed that you need, be assured that they will likely be added in the near future!

New Pages:

Kern County, California - with 13 links from Ancestry

Madera County, California - with six links from Ancestry

Merced County, California - with 18 links from Ancestry

Santa Barbara County, California - with 50 links from Ancestry, spanning the years 1886 to 1976


Updates:

California - one new link each from the Golden Nugget Library and the San Francisco Genealogy website; now with 17 counties linked

Calaveras County, California - three new links from the Golden Nugget Library and one from the San Francisco Genealogy website

Los Angeles County, California - five new links from Ancestry

San Bernardino County, California - 24 new links from Ancestry

San Joaquin County, California - six new links from the Golden Nugget Library and one from the San Francisco Genealogy website

Stanislaus County, California - three new links from the Golden Nugget Library and one from the San Francisco Genealogy website

Tuolumne County, California - three new links from the Golden Nugget Library and one from the San Francisco Genealogy website

AB, AL, AR, CO, CT, IL, ME, MI, PA New Pages and Updates

Although I haven't posted anything lately on this blog, I have been busy adding links to the site! Whenever I had five or 10 minutes to spare, I'd add a few more links. Now that I have my main computer repaired after four months, I'm hoping to be able to work more on this project. Here the new pages and updates I've added in the last two and a half weeks:

New Pages:

Camrose County, Alberta - with 13 links from Peel's Prairie Provinces and two links from CanadaGenWeb

Carroll County, Arkansas - with one link from Ancestry

Craighead County, Arkansas - with four links from Ancestry and one from BYU Digital Books

Garland County, Arkansas - with eight links from Ancestry and one from BYU Digital Books

Sebastian County, Arkansas - with four links from Ancestry and one from BYU Digital Books

Union County, Arkansas - with five links from Ancestry and one from BYU Digital Books

Washington County, Arkansas - with four links from Ancestry and one from BYU Digital Books

McDonough County, Illinois - with one link from BYU Digital Books


Updates:

Mobile County, Alabama - two new links from BYU Digital Books

Alberta - added link to Camrose County; now with six counties/regions/cities linked, plus 13 links to province-wide directories

Arkansas - with one new links from BYU Digital Books and now with nine counties linked

Hempstead County, Arkansas - two new links; one from BYU Digital Books, and the other from Ancestry

Jefferson County, Alabama - two new links from BYU Digital Books

Montgomery County, Alabama - one new link from BYU Digital Books

Pulaski County, Arkansas - 18 new links from Ancestry and one from BYU Digital Books

Weld County, Colorado - one new link from BYU Digital Books

New Haven, Connecticut - five new links from WorldVitalRecords

Illinois - now with 23 counties linked, plus three links from EveNDon

Knox County, Maine - one new link from Ancestry and two from BYU Digital Books

Kent County, Michigan - one new link from BYU Digital Books

Lebanon County, Pennsylvania - one new link from BYU Digital Books

Harris County, Texas - two new links from BYU Digital Books

Ancestry and Footnote - News About City Directories

Ancestry has added more city directories to its already great collection. From their news release today:

U.S. City Directories Update, 1950 - 1969
City directories can be an amazing resource for tracing ancestors between census years—or, in this case, tracing more contemporary ancestors who lived past the 1930 census—the last census to be made available online.

We’ve added more than 800 city directories from the 1950s and 60s, from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and California.

Also, as part of its celebration of New York's 400th anniversary, they have released several database collections, including:

City directories for Albany, Buffalo, New York City, Niagara Falls, Rochester, Watertown and White Plains: Most of these directories are from the 20th century, but some of the New York City directories go back as far as 1833.

Footnote released the following info earlier this week. While not adding more directories lately, they do want people to know about their collection:

You'll find the one of the best collections of City Directories on the web

Featuring over 2 million pages, the City Directories Collection on Footnote.com has records dating back to 1785. Before phone books came into the picture, many cities and towns published directories of their residents. These valuable records often contain:

• The names of the husband and wife
• Occupation and name of employer
• Addresses
• and more.

View a list of our City Directories today.

Today Harold Henderson mentioned on his blog some quirks of Footnote's city directories that are pretty important to notice.

If you don't have subscriptions to either website, many public libraries have Ancestry available for free onsite. Also, most Family History Centers have Footnote (and WorldVitalRecords, which also has many city directories) available for free at their locations as well!

AZ New Page and Updates

I've been working on the Arizona pages lately and added all the links I found at Ancestry for this state. I also found many links in the USGenWeb Archives and some local projects like MyCochise and AZClips. There are many more links at the USGenWeb Archives for Arizona counties, so look for them to be added in the future.

New Page:

Cochise County, Arizona - with one link each from EveNDon and the Internet Archive, 101 links from the USGenWeb Archives, 22 links from MyCochise, and six from Ancestry


Updates:

Arizona - now with two statewide links (one each from EveNDon and the Internet Archive) and with three counties linked

Maricopa County, Arizona - now with two links each from EveNDon and the Internet Archive, one from DistantCousin, seven from AZClips, and six from Ancestry

Pima County, Arizona - now with two links each from EveNDon and the Internet Archive, and three from Ancestry

Ireland and United Kingdom New Pages and Updates

New Pages:

Berkshire, England - one link moved from England page

Buckinghamshire, England - one link moved from England page

Cumberland, England - one link moved from England page

London, England - with one link from EveNDon and one link moved from England page

Oxfordshire, England - one link moved from England page

Yorkshire, England - one link moved from England page

County Cork, Ireland - with one link from EveNDon


Updates:

England - added historic counties table and some links moved to appropriate county pages; one new link from EveNDon; links added to help determine for which county a city, town, or village is a part

Ireland - added historic counties table and links moved to appropriate county pages