The Open Library site has links to hundreds of local history books https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7900785W/History_of_Stanislaus_County_California
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24156285M/History_of_Alameda_County_California https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9207950W/A_history_of_Merced_County_California https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16289645W/History_of_Santa_Cruz_County_California Just enter the county name and history in the search box and look down the list for the "READ" icon Internet Archive has city directories by the hundreds https://archive.org/details/texts The search is something I haven't figured out yet. Pages like the Golden Nugget Library http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/ has links to read them online Eric Edgar -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.