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 e: [log in to unmask]