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

GA, IN, KY, MN, MO, NY, OH, PA, and WV New Pages and Updates

New Pages

Butler County, Missouri - with 11 links from the Poplar Bluff Public Library and five from Ancestry

Montgomery County, Ohio - with three new links from the Internet Archive

Muskingum County, Ohio - with three new links from the Internet Archive


Updates

Fulton County, Georgia - repaired link to 1872 Atlanta city directory

Jefferson County, Indiana - three new links from the Internet Archive

Jefferson County, Kentucky - three new links from the Internet Archive

Hennepin County, Minnesota - 26 new links from the Hennepin County Library

Missouri - now with eight counties and the City of St. Louis linked, out of 114 counties

City of St. Louis, Missouri - three new links from the Internet Archive

New York City, New York - repaired link to 1875 Brooklyn city directory

Ohio - now with 32 out of 88 counties linked

Hamilton County, Ohio - three new links from the Internet Archive

Scioto County, Ohio - three new links from the Internet Archive

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - 27 new links from Historic Pittsburgh, two new links from Don's List, nine new links each from Ancestry and Fold3, 11 new links from the Internet Archive, and five new links from Google Books

Armstrong County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Beaver County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh and one new link from Don's List

Blair County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Butler County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Cambria County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Clearfield County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Crawford County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Cumberland County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Fayette County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Greene County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Indiana County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Lawrence County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Lebanon County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Lehigh County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

McKean County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Mercer County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Somerset County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Warren County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Washington County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

York County, Pennsylvania - two new links from Historic Pittsburgh

Ohio County, West Virginia - three new links from the Internet Archive

Atlanta, GA Updates

Thanks to my friend, Amir Dekel, for pointing out the many city directories for Atlanta, Georgia on the Internet Archive! I just added all 30 of them to the Fulton County, Georgia page.

GA, LA, and TN Updates

I have found some more links at state digital archives websites. Also, Taneya Koonce notified me that the Tennessee State Library and Archives website has a list of free online directories for the city of Nashville. Some of them are held by the library and others are at other websites.

Updates:

Georgia - one new link from the Digital Library of Georgia

Orleans Parish, Louisiana - one new link from the LOUISiana Digital Library

Davidson County, Tennessee - four new links from the Tennessee State Library and Archives website, four new links from Google Books, one new link from Jeanne Johnson's website, and one new link from EveNDon.

AL, GA, IA, KY, MA, MO, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, ON, PA New Pages and Updates

I've been taking a break from adding California directories from Ancestry, and instead have been adding directories from Family Tree Connections. These are nice because most of them feature small communities, rather than the large cities one sees at other directory databases and websites.

New Pages:

Polk County, Georgia - with two links from Family Tree Connections

Humboldt County, Iowa - with two links from Family Tree Connections

Union County, Iowa - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Madison County, Kentucky - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Franklin County, Massachusetts - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Callaway County, Missouri - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Morris County, New Jersey - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Washington County, New York - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Surry County, North Carolina - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Crawford County, Ohio - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Medina County, Ohio - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Peel County, Ontario - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Simcoe County, Ontario - with one link from Family Tree Connections

York County, Pennsylvania - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Clark County, Wisconsin - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Barron County, Wisconsin - with one link from Family Tree Connections

Updates:

Georgia - now with six out of 83 counties and city-counties linked

Iowa - now with seven out of 99 counties linked

Kentucky - now with eight out of 120 counties linked

Calhoun County, Alabama - one new link from Family Tree Connections

Massachusetts - now with ten out of 14 counties linked

Missouri - now with five out of 114 counties plus St. Louis linked

Hillsborough County, New Hampshire - two new links from Family Tree Connections

Merrimack County, New Hampshire - two new links from Family Tree Connections

New Jersey - now with 11 out of 21 counties linked

New York - now with 24 out of 62 counties plus New York City linked

New York City, New York - one new link from Family Tree Connections

North Carolina - now with five out of 100 counties linked

Ohio - now with 23 out of 88 counties linked

Ontario - now with 20 out of 50 census districts linked

Pennsylvania - now with 19 out of 67 counties linked

Lebanon County, Pennsylvania - one new link from Family Tree Connections

Wisconsin - now with 11 out of 72 counties linked

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

Updates and New Pages for June 14, 2009

I created a ton of new pages as well as made many updates today!

Updates:
The biggest update was the one on the Cook County, Illinois page. Currently, all links (especially the ones from Footnote) are correct and formatted properly. I also added a link from Eve and Don.

Resources - added links to NEHGS and KentuckyCityDirectory

Articles - added link to Dae Powell's article, City Directories, on his Shoestring Genealogy website

San Bernardino County, California - two new links from Ancestry

Orange County, California - two new links from Ancestry

Los Angeles County, California - two new links from Ancestry

Hartford County, Connecticut - 10 new links from DistantCousin

New Haven County, Connecticut - corrected format of links

Fairfield County, Connecticut - two new links from DistantCousin

Adams County, Illinois - one link from Eve and Don

Madison County, Illinois - corrected links from Ancestry; added link from Eve and Don

St. Clair County, Illinois - one link from Eve and Don


New Pages:
Colorado

Denver County, Colorado - with one link from DistantCousin

El Paso County, Colorado - with one link from DistantCousin

Delaware

New Castle County, Delaware - with one link from DistantCousin

San Francisco County, California - with three links

Santa Clara County, California - with three links

Alameda County, California - with three links

San Mateo County, California - with three links

New London County, Connecticut - with one link from DistantCousin

Glynn County, Georgia - with one link from DistantCousin

LaSalle County, Illinois - with two links

Christian County, Illinois - with two links

Peoria County, Illinois - with two links

Kane County, Illinois - with two links