sevfiv Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 All I can write/say is...yay! Historic Houston City Directories http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcitydir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmariar Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Wow! That's great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Pretty cool, found anything of major interest yet?Do other cities have similar digital records? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NenaE Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 This is great stuff...thanks for sharing the link, and thank you to who ever took the time to digitize. It just keeps getting better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earlydays Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 All I can write/say is...yay!http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2FcitydirThis is really wonderful stuff...where else can you find things like the first names of Henke and Pillot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan the Man Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 way cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Will they be posting newer directories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMac Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 All I can write/say is...yay!http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2FcitydirWooooooooooooooooo.What a great/wonderful research tool for genealogist. For those who have not yet used 1 of these directories, U R N 4 1 hell of a surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMac Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Gonna take 1 hell of a high speed/capacity system to load/access. I have spend well over an hour attempting to load 3 @ random directories & ALL 3 have run out there tyme w/an error message of tech glitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NenaE Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 I haven't had much trouble looking at these directories, it gets stuck in the middle of trying to access sometimes, I just restart, and it appears. Maybe it's because I'm just opening, and not saving. This info. is great, I was able to look up my great-grandfather and his employer from the 1920's. I love those ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 I've saved several of the directories to my PC, which makes review much easier. Lots of good information. Hopefully, we will get to see more of these online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 what is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 what is this?Big thick books that list every resident of Houston for the years covered by the directory. There are also advertisements from businesses, and a list of residents by address. Great tool for history research, genealogy, etc. A predecessor to the phone book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 All I can write/say is...yay!http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcitydirthank you for posting this news. ancestry.com had had it for years now but at least it's free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmer Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Yay indeed! Thanks for posting this, sev! Between this and the Cite archives we amateur historians have had some good news lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gto250us Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Pretty cool, found anything of major interest yet?Do other cities have similar digital records?Pittsburgh has City directories and more at:Pittsburgh Digital Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Awesome cool! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted August 3, 2010 Author Share Posted August 3, 2010 Directories up to 1942 have been posted so far.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmer Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Hmmm. Seems like it's trying to install a Windows .exe file (maybe an inline reader plug-in?) on my computer when I click on the file, when that fails it downloads the 48 MB file to my hard drive. Viewing it in Preview has too poor of resolution to be readable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 Which year did you try to download? What was the file name(s)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnu Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I am sure having a tough time with the 1942 directory.The (small) names are sure hard to read. I didn't have the problem with the previous files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan the Man Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I am sure having a tough time with the 1942 directory.The (small) names are sure hard to read. I didn't have the problem with the previous files.I realize that the library is probably trying to keep the file sizes down, but the directories should have been scanned at a higher resolution. I looked through the 1939-1942 directories, and was disappointed to find many of the names and addresses are illegible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 I just looked through the first part of 1942 and yeah - same complaint (though nothing tried to install a file like marmer described)..I *think* a third party did the scanning but they were all from the microform copies so if the microform was bad, there's no fix.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmer Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Which year did you try to download? What was the file name(s)?Sev, I tried the first file in the series. The file name is enormously descriptive: "187.pdf."Tried it twice, both times it goes to a download link. That actually makes sense for them, I guess, maybe saves them some bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 Can you right-click on the "Access this item. (48.12 MB)" link and choose "save link as?" When I left-click on the access link, however, a save/open option opens for me anyhow.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan the Man Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Does anyone know if they still have the paper copies at the new Texas Room? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmer Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Can you right-click on the "Access this item. (48.12 MB)" link and choose "save link as?" When I left-click on the access link, however, a save/open option opens for me anyhow..Sev, both things you describe sound like a download. I'd like to view it in the browser without downloading a 48 MB file to my hard drive every time. I did try the right-click option "Open Link in New Tab" but that just opens a blank tab, and (surprise!) starts another download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted August 5, 2010 Author Share Posted August 5, 2010 If you use Firefox you can go to Tools --> Options --> Applications - there should be a few Adobe Acrobat/Readers in the list. You can set how you want Firefox to handle opening PDFs - either ask each time, prompt to save file, open in Acrobat/Reader (externally), or open in Firefox (need the Firefox plugin...would prompt you to get it if you don't have it already).I think the 48MB will still be kept in your browser's temp folder but you can manually clear that out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmer Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 I actually have the newest version of Safari and Adobe Reader configured to default to browser viewing. I'm pretty sure that the HPL link forces a download, probably to save them bandwidth from casual online viewers like me. But I don't know enough about html to be able to tell by looking at the source code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelguy_73 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Y'all kknow Ancestry.com has these at good resolution through the mid-1950s, right? Well worth the borrowed membership credentials I use to access the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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