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Discontinuance of PSIMedia's Digitial City Directories....
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Gail Zachary, at PSIMedia (a Gale division - voice: 800-444-0799) has
confirmed that their subscription-access posting of digitized American city
directories (http://www.citydirectories.psmedia.com/) will be de-posted at
the end of this year - due to competition with their microfilm product of the
same content.  Although not as elegantly developed as that of Ancestry.com,
PSIMedia's version did have many more titles - it's deposting will be a
signficant loss.

A request to transfer this digital resource to a tax-exempt website - for
which Gale could claim a substantial tax deduction - was declined.

>>>Anyone with more ooomph want to give it a try?  Albany?  Ken Jackson?
LoC?  Boston Athenaeum?  NYPL? <<<

Christopher Gray
"Streetscapes" Columnist, Sunday Real Estate Section
The New York Times
office:  246 West 80th Street
New York City   10024
voice:  212-799-0520
fax:     212-799-0542
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