Fourteen of us had a lively afternoon listening to Lorna and Sandy share information about what to expect and not to expect in using city directories. I think everyone was surprised at how far back in time directories go in our English speaking world, and that the first ever accounting of people, land, and animals in England goes back to 1085 when William I (William the Conquerer) sent census takers throughout the kingdom to count everything in sight and record it in Latin. We also learned how Atlases, Gazetteers, and Directories interweave to create the documents we call City Directories. Coming soon to a library near you will be a list of the Wasco County/The Dalles Directory holdings in both the William Dick Library and the Dalles/Wasco County Library, as well as ways of accessing other local directories. Finally we were reminded that the best place to start looking for City Directories is in the location for which they were printed.