tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post433503547509092235..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: City Directories on Footnote.comRandy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-78454462858567576632009-10-13T00:48:43.704-07:002009-10-13T00:48:43.704-07:00Posting your business in online directories not on...Posting your business in online directories not only help promote your business but increase the chance of having a great number of customers as well.Free Advertisementhttp://www.shopzipcode.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-15101926239325325182009-10-12T20:43:41.582-07:002009-10-12T20:43:41.582-07:00Randy,
Thanks for the response. This is odd. Wh...Randy,<br /><br />Thanks for the response. This is odd. When browsing under "browse titles" and navigating to the 1880 Cincinnati directory, I do get a numbering that if taken to the end via ">>" gives the 1395 pages as you said. I am trying to replicate how I got there before which I cannot seem to do. Instead of the usual browse arrangement where you keep getting new panels to the right until you get the database in question and then liniks to individual pages, I got a view with thumbnails of individual pages, and where 70 was the max available. And I do not mean the thumbnails with "premium" on them that are typically returned by a search. Instead all I can get is a link for each page and not a thumbnail. <br /><br />Oh well false alarm I guess :). Maybe it was some fluke although it would be interesting if someone can replicate what I did where you get a page of thumbnails for individual pages in that year's directory. As I said I had never seen Footnote do anything to misrepresent before so I am glad that is not the case. Now if they would just get those War of 1812 Compiled Service Records . . .<br /><br />MikeFMikeFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587230319820652536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-49768474779429187522009-10-12T19:37:15.487-07:002009-10-12T19:37:15.487-07:00Mike,
There are 1,395 pages in the Cincinnati 188...Mike,<br /><br />There are 1,395 pages in the Cincinnati 1880 City Directory. It is a Williams Directory.<br /><br />If you click on one of the pagen umbers, you do see the thumbnail of the page and it is difficult to find your folks. That's why you should use the Search box at the bottom of the page to find the surname or keyword. It gives you the list of pages with your Search matches. <br /><br />I did all of that within my subscription - haven't tested to see what happens without a subscription.<br /><br />Good luck -- RandyRandy Seaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-18680048326006482612009-10-12T17:08:12.237-07:002009-10-12T17:08:12.237-07:00Randy,
First let me note that I am not a Footnote...Randy,<br /><br />First let me note that I am not a Footnote subscriber, though I have been waiting for an opportunity (as in they start digitizing War of 1812 records).<br /><br />One of my big pet peeves, especially triggered by newspaper sites, is deceptive advertising, as in advertising a period of years only to find out that it is not continuous and only contains a few issues at each end perhaps.<br /><br />I have never before found Footnote guilty of such doings, but now I am not sure with the city directories. <br /><br />One should be able to use browse mode as you recommend, to go to a year and then find one or more directories listed, i.e. books whose pages one can then see if one has a subscription.<br /><br />Instead, one clicks on a year and sees thumbnail views of of pages, without knowing what one will see until one clicks on it. Will it be a certain brand directory, will it be complete, and will there be more than one brand/title of directory lumped in together in the bastardized fashion that Ancestry likes to often do?<br /><br />So using Cincinnati as an example I browsed to that city and clicked on 1880. I find a directory that only has 70 pages for a large city. My guess is that if I had a subscription, that I would find that only a very small portion of the Williams Directory will be there, as in the business directory at the beginning. Which would of course mean not finding one's ancestors living in Cincinnati in 1880.<br /><br />There needs to be an arrangement by book title and note of how complete each one is. Otherwise the whole could constitute deceptive advertising of databases.<br /><br />Again I have a good opinion of Footnote and am only going off of a quick search without the ability to do a more thorough search, and maybe I am missing something, as in not being able to see an actual page county without a subscription. Perhaps you have a subscription and can dig further on this to find out the truth. <br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />MikeFMikeFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587230319820652536noreply@blogger.com