looking for my childhood home

[angelmomnc]

Does anyone have access to either a 1960 or 1961 Long Island, NY phone
book? As a very small child lived in Amityville/Copaigue area & have
been trying to find my address for a very long time. Was too young to
know the address; parents divorced/now deceased. Will be in NY from
3/28-4/11 & would really like to bring this long search to an end.
Thanks! AngelmomNC

[Joe Makowiec]

On 01 Mar 2006 in soc.genealogy.computing, angelmomnc wrote:

Does anyone have access to either a 1960 or 1961 Long Island, NY
phone book? As a very small child lived in Amityville/Copaigue area
& have been trying to find my address for a very long time. Was too
young to know the address; parents divorced/now deceased. Will be
in NY from 3/28-4/11 & would really like to bring this long search
to an end.

First, this question is more appropriate for news:soc.genealogy.misc or
news:soc.genealogy.methods I've crossposted to s.g.misc and set
followups there.

Public libraries in the area may well have what you want. You can
start with the umbrella organization for Long Island libraries, LILRC:

http://www.lilrc.org/

And specifically, their page of links to local libraries:

http://www.lilrc.org/lilibs/lilibs.php

There's one listed for both Amityville and Copaigue. You might also
try the US GenWeb site for Suffolk County:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nysuffol/

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

[Hugh Watkins]

angelmomnc wrote:

Does anyone have access to either a 1960 or 1961 Long Island, NY phone
book? As a very small child lived in Amityville/Copaigue area & have
been trying to find my address for a very long time. Was too young to
know the address; parents divorced/now deceased. Will be in NY from
3/28-4/11 & would really like to bring this long search to an end.
Thanks! AngelmomNC

ask a local librarian

a catalogue may be on line

news:alt.genealogy are a friendly and helpful lot

In London we have a telephone company archive
in Copenhagen the Royal Library
and in Birmingham UK central Library I did exactly the same to establish
the date of our house move within 6 months

Hugh W

main blog
http://hughw36.blogspot.com/
pictures
http://slim2005.blogspot.com

[Sir Creep]

Hugh Watkins wrote:

angelmomnc wrote:

Does anyone have access to either a 1960 or 1961 Long Island, NY phone
book?

ask a local librarian
a catalogue may be on line

I would be stunned if any public library was holding onto 45-year old
phone books. I would be quite surprised, in fact, if they didn't toss
the past edition the second they received updates. That's like the
library keeping old copies of IRS tax forms from 1961.

news:alt.genealogy are a friendly and helpful lot

In London we have a telephone company archive
Hugh W

I think Hugh is onto something. Perhaps the phone company would have
an archive. Far more likely than a local public library that is likely
starved for shelf space.

[Hugh Watkins]

Sir Creep wrote:

Hugh Watkins wrote:

angelmomnc wrote:


Does anyone have access to either a 1960 or 1961 Long Island, NY phone
book?



ask a local librarian
a catalogue may be on line



I would be stunned if any public library was holding onto 45-year old
phone books. I would be quite surprised, in fact, if they didn't toss
the past edition the second they received updates. That's like the
library keeping old copies of IRS tax forms from 1961.


news:alt.genealogy are a friendly and helpful lot

In London we have a telephone company archive
Hugh W


I think Hugh is onto something. Perhaps the phone company would have
an archive. Far more likely than a local public library that is likely
starved for shelf space.

read my lips a local Central library keep all kind of lsit of citizens
directories
in their local hitory collection

Hugh W

[singhals]

Hugh Watkins wrote:

Sir Creep wrote:

Hugh Watkins wrote:

angelmomnc wrote:


Does anyone have access to either a 1960 or 1961 Long Island, NY phone
book?




ask a local librarian
a catalogue may be on line




I would be stunned if any public library was holding onto 45-year old
phone books. I would be quite surprised, in fact, if they didn't toss
the past edition the second they received updates. That's like the
library keeping old copies of IRS tax forms from 1961.


news:alt.genealogy are a friendly and helpful lot

In London we have a telephone company archive
Hugh W



I think Hugh is onto something. Perhaps the phone company would have
an archive. Far more likely than a local public library that is likely
starved for shelf space.


read my lips a local Central library keep all kind of lsit of citizens
directories
in their local hitory collection

Hugh W

NOT in the US they don't. And Long Island *is* in the US. A county
archives may have them, in microform, but even that's iffy.

Cheryl

[Joe Makowiec]

On 07 Mar 2006 in soc.genealogy.computing, singhals wrote:

Hugh Watkins wrote:

read my lips a local Central library keep all kind of lsit of
citizens directories in their local hitory collection

NOT in the US they don't. And Long Island *is* in the US. A county
archives may have them, in microform, but even that's iffy.

Uh, Cheryl? My local public library (eastern New York State) has both
telephone directories going back most of the past century, and city
directories going back into the 1800s.

http://uhls.org/troy/

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

[singhals]

Joe Makowiec wrote:

On 07 Mar 2006 in soc.genealogy.computing, singhals wrote:


Hugh Watkins wrote:



read my lips a local Central library keep all kind of lsit of
citizens directories in their local hitory collection

NOT in the US they don't. And Long Island *is* in the US. A county
archives may have them, in microform, but even that's iffy.



Uh, Cheryl? My local public library (eastern New York State) has both
telephone directories going back most of the past century, and city
directories going back into the 1800s.

http://uhls.org/troy/

You're kidding! Kudos to your head librarian then! Last time I saw
anything but the local current phone book in my library was about 1981.
Nor does my local have the criss-cross or the city directory past the
current one.

Thanks, Joe!

Cheryl