[PW] Access to old telephone directory...?

[David Anderson]

  Diane,

  I tried ancestry.com and found that there are a _lot_ of Geisingers in 
Connecticut in the historical records. Trying just the directories, I found 
that ancestry.com doesn't have a hartford or west hartford directly.

  Perhaps GenWeb for Connecticut has directories or contacts for 
directories.

  David

  David C Anderson
  (Retired from UC Davis Libraries)
  340 Killdeer Court
  Lincoln, CA 95648-2474 USA
  916/408-0110
  rockydell at digitalpath.net
  http://rockydellresources.homestead.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Diane Rainaud" <drainaud at comcast.net>
  To: <list at project-wombat.org>
  Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 5:53 PM
  Subject: [PW] Access to old telephone directory...?


  > Hello,
  >
  > I'm trying to do a favor for a friend and am hoping someone here can 
help.
  > My friend is in his 50s and lives in California.  When he was in middle
  > school and high school his family lived in the town I'm in...West 
Hartford,
  > CT.  He'd like a current photo of the home they lived in, but he can't
  > remember the address.  I thought I might be able to find the address in 
an
  > old telephone directory, but got this reply from the local library:
  >
  > "The West Hartford Public Library does own Hartford phone directories, 
which
  > include West Hartford, from 1969 to the present. We also own city
  > directories which cover West Hartford from 1940 to the present. However,
  > this collection is currently unavailable because of a major renovation
  > project going on in our main library building. When we reopen that 
facility
  > in the Fall of 2007, we'd be happy to check these directories for you."
  >
  > I'm hoping that someone on this list might be able to point me in 
another
  > direction to find my friend's old street address, or perhaps have access 
to
  > the directories that are unavailable here at the moment.  The family's 
last
  > name is Geisinger...I don't know what the father's first name was which 
is
  > probably how any listing would have been made.  I imagine, though, there
  > probably weren't many families with that last name so am hoping it won't 
be
  > too difficult a search.  The family would have lived there in the 1960s 
and
  > 70s.
  >
  > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  >
  > Diane
  >
  >
  >
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