Online Historical Directories Website Receiving Some Publicity

The Online Historical Directories Website has been receiving some very nice publicity lately! First off, the site was mentioned in Volume 11, Number 9 of Nu? What's New?, The E-zine of Jewish Genealogy From Avotaynu, edited by Gary Mokotoff. Next, Pat Richley, a.k.a. DearMYRTLE, mentioned OHDW as a resource in her post, "City Directories - have you revisited this record group?"  And in the August 2010 issue of Family Tree Magazine (recently mailed to subscribers), Sunny McClellan Morton includes the site as a resource in her article on church records, "Soul Searching."

Many thanks for your very kind mentions of this site!

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AL, IL, IN, KS, MI, PA, TN, THA, and WI New Pages and Updates

New Pages:

Sedgwick County, Kansas - with two links from the Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society

Thailand - with one link from the Internet Archive


Updates:

Madison County, Alabama - one corrected/updated link from USGenWeb

Sangamon County, Illinois - one new link from University of Illinois at Springfield

Allen County, Indiana - one new link from the Internet Archive

LaPorte County, Indiana - one new link from the Internet Archive

Wabash County, Indiana - one new link from the Internet Archive

Wayne County, Indiana - one new link from the Internet Archive

Kansas - now with 7 out of 105 counties linked

Saginaw County, Michigan  - one new link from the Internet Archive

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania - one new link from the Internet Archive

Davison County, Tennessee - one new link from the Tennessee State Library and Archives

Dane County, Wisconsin - one new link from the Internet Archives

WA New Pages and Updates

The Washington State Digital Archives has been indexing city and county directories for some time now. Although I have been watching for an announcement on their blog for when these have been placed online, they apparently have not publicized it. I took a closer look today and noticed that several directories are now online, listed under the "Miscellaneous Family History" record collection:

• Benton, Franklin, and Kittitas County Directories, Polk, 1911-2
• Benton, Franklin, and Kittitas County Directories, Polk, 1915-6
• Ellensburg and Kittitas County Directory, Polk, 1923-4
• Lewis and Pacific County Directories, Polk, 1914-5
• Lewis and Pacific County Directories, Polk, 1915-6
• Seattle City Directory, Polk, 1893
• Thurston and Mason County Directories, Polk, 1921-2

I have added all the links to the appropriate county pages: Benton, Franklin, King, Kittitas, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston. Benton and Pacific are new pages for this site, so now Washington has 22 of its 39 counties linked.