New Pages and Updates - Part I

It's been a year since I've posted updates. I have done a lot of work this past year, but realized that I had not notified my readers via this blog about them. Two most notable changes: the Eve N Don directory site not only changed its name to Don's List after his wife Eve passed away, it also changed its URL (web address). It took quite a bit of time for me to make the appropriate changes to this site. The second change was when the BYU Digital Books site changed to FamilySearch Books. I'm not done changing all those links. Meantime, you can check them out at FamilySearch Books and do a search for "directory." Additionally, the site Old Directory Search is now offline. I've started to remove some of the dead links, but again, have not gotten to all of them.

New Pages

Covington County, Alabama - with three links for Andalusia from Ancestry



Updates

FAQs page - removed three dead links

Resources - removed two dead links

Alabama - now with 11 out of 67 counties linked

Calhoun County, Alabama - 15 new links for Anniston from Ancestry; updated one link for Anniston from BYU Digital Books to FamilySearch Books; removed two dead links from the Internet Archive

Jefferson County, Alabama - 59 new links (12 for Bessemer; 47 for Birmingham) from Ancestry; one new link for Birmingham from Hathi Trust Digital Library; removed duplicate link from Internet Archive;

Arizona - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cochise County, Arizona - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List; updated 101 links from USGenWeb!

Maricopa County, Arizona - updated two links from Eve N Don to Don's List; removed six broken links from AZClips

Pima County, Arizona - updated two links from Eve N Don to Don's List

California - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Alameda County, California - updated two links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Boulder County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Contra Costa County, California - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Los Angeles County, California - updated three links and added two more, all from Don's List; removed two broken links and corrected one link from USGenWeb; corrected two links from Southern California Genealogical Society; corrected one link from Ancestry

San Francisco City-County, California - removed broken link to San Francisco Genealogy site; updated seven links from Eve N Don to Don's List

San Mateo County, California - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cheyenne County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Clear Creek County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Denver County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List; removed one dead link from Old Directory Search

Gilpin County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Jefferson County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Larimer County, Colorado - 17 new links from Fort Collins History Connection

Kit Carson County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Las Animas County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Pueblo County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Weld County, Colorado - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Connecticut - updated three links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Fairfield County, Connecticut - removed one dead link from Old Directory Search

Hartford County, Connecticut - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

New Haven County, Connecticut - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

District of Columbia - updated five links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Fulton County, Georgia - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Illinois - updated three links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Adams County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Alexander County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Bureau County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cass County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Champaign County, Illinois - updated eight links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Christian County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Coles County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cook County, Illinois - one dead link removed from Old Directory Search; updated 13 links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Douglas County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Edgar County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Kane County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

LaSalle County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Macon County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Madison County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Mason County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

McHenry County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Menard County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Peoria County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Randolph County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

St. Clair County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Sangamon County, Illinois - updated two links from Eve N Don to Don's List; corrected one link from University of Illinois at Springfield

Shelby County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Woodford County, Illinois - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Allen County, Indiana - updated five links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Dearborn County, Indiana - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Jay County, Indiana - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Jefferson County, Indiana - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

LaPorte County, Indiana - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Marion County, Indiana - updated one link from BYU Digital Books to FamilySearch Books; corrected one link from Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis University Libraries; updated 10 links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Kansas - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Kentucky - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Campbell County, Kentucky - updated six links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Daviess County, Kentucky - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Kenton County, Kentucky - updated six links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Mason County, Kentucky - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

McCracken County, Kentucky - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Orleans Parish, Louisiana - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Maine - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cumberland County, Maine - updated five links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Knox County, Maine - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List; updated one link from BYU Digital Books to FamilySearch Books

Maryland - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

City of Baltimore, Maryland - updated three links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Massachusetts - removed link to Hampden County; now with 10 out of 14 counties linked

Bristol County, Massachusetts - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Essex County, Massachusetts - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Hampden County, Massachusetts - removed dead link to Old Directory Search; removed page as there are no longer any links on it

Hampshire County, Massachusetts - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Plymounth County, Massachusetts - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Suffolk County, Massachusetts - 57 new links from Boston Athenaeum Digital Collections; updated eight links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Michigan - removed one dead link from Clarke Historical Library

Saginaw County, Michigan - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Wayne County, Michigan - added five new links and updated three links from Michigan Local History Network; updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Missouri - updated two links from Eve N Don to Don's List

Cape Giradeau County, Missouri - updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List

Lewis County, Missouri - corrected page header

Monroe County, Missouri - corrected page header

City of St. Louis, Missouri - 21 new links from St. Louis Circuit Court Legal Encoding Project; two new links from Google Books; updated one link from Eve N Don to Don's List; removed five dead links from University of Missouri Library Systems while waiting to hear back from the site's webmaster to see if there are new links

CA, CO, DC, KS, MN, NJ, NY, WA New Pages and Updates

New Pages

Mesa County, Colorado - with seven links from Ancestry

Jefferson County, Kansas - with four links from the Kansas History and Heritage Project

Ford County, Kansas - with three links from the Kansas History and Heritage Project

Ferry County, Washington - with one link from Crossroad Archives

Pend Oreille County, Washington - with one link from Crossroad Archives


Updates

Los Angeles County, California - 34 new links from Long Beach Public Library

Sacramento County, California - one new link from Golden Nugget Library

Colorado - now with 14 out of 64 counties linked

Denver County, Colorado - 17 new links from Ancestry

District of Columbia - corrected 1874 Georgetown Directory with new link to Genealogy Trails; added one new link from Genealogy Trails

Kansas - now with 10 out of 105 counties linked

Hennepin County, Minnesota - 22 new links from Hennepin County Library

Camden County, New Jersey - one new link from the Delaware Valley Rhythm & Blues Society

Essex County, New Jersey - one new link from Millburn Free Public Library

Union County, New Jersey - one new link from Millburn Free Public Library

Erie County, New York - four new links, one each from Distant Cousin, Don's List, Google Books, and the Internet Archive

Washington - now with 24 out of 39 counties linked

Stevens County, Washington - one new link from Crossroad Archives

AK, CA, DC, IL, and WLS New Pages and Updates

With the busyness of the holidays, I haven't done too much with the site, but here are a few new pages and updates for you:

New Pages:

Caernarvonshire, Wales - with 14 links from the Bangor Civic Society (originally listed on the Wales page)

Glamorgonshire, Wales - with one link from the Historical Directories site (not to be confused with my site, the Online Historical Directories website!)


Updates:

Alaska - 13 new links, all from the Alaska-Yukon Territory Business Directory, Polk, 1923-4 at USGenWeb

Orange County, California - three new links from the 1936 County Directory at Ancestry

San Mateo County, California - one new update from the Online Archive of California

District of Columbia - one new update from Genealogy Trails

Cook County, Illinois - the 1928-9 Polk Street Directory from the Chicago Historical Society

Wales - now organized by historical county and links moved to the new Caernarvonshire page; also the page has a new URL, so if you've bookmarked or otherwise linked to it, please make the necessary changes

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Finally, a bit of news: if you have an Ancestry subscription or use the Ancestry Library Edition, you'll discover that they've made it easier to browse their directories database (as well as use their many other databases) by state, then city or county, and finally by year using a drop down menu on the right. For more information, read this post from their blog.

DC Updates and the EveNDon Website

With the addition of three new links to the District of Columbia's webpage, I have concluded adding all known links from the EveNDon website for United States' directories.

However, there are many other directories on that website from other countries, which I will eventually link to. Also, I just discovered that Don has stored some digital copies of U.S. directories on the DocStoc website; again, I'll be adding links to those as well.

You may notice that as you peruse the EveNDon website that I may not have listed every resource for a location that is available on that site. That's because I tried to stick closely to directories only; there are many gazetteers listed under the directory category on the EveNDon site, but I only linked those that had some sort of directory in them, like a business directory.

EveNDon have great resources and many digital books on their website beyond city directories, which I highly recommend you use for your genealogical and historical research!

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