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Online Gazetteers

• FamilySearch Places at FamilySearch
• World Gazetteers at Archive.org
• Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in Bermuda at fallingrain.com
• Rider, Fremont. Rider's Bermuda; a guide book for travelers, with 4 maps. New York : H. Holt and Company, 1922. Online at: Archive.org.
• United States Board on Geographic Names. British West Indies and Bermuda : official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Office of Geography, 1955. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.

Print Only Gazetteers

• Tucker, Terry. Bermuda - unintended destination 1609-1610 : containing all the contemporary accounts & Bermuda's earliest maps, with modern comments, and research on the personalities involved. Hamilton, Bermuda : T. Tucker, c1978. FS Catalog book 972.99 H2tt

Why Use Gazetteers

A gazetteer is a dictionary of place-names. Gazetteers list or describe towns and villages, parishes, states, populations, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. Within a specific geographical area, the place-names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. You can use a gazetteer to locate the places where your family lived and to determine the civil and religious jurisdictions over those places.

There are many places within a country with similar or identical place-names. You will need to use a gazetteer to identify the specific town where your ancestor lived, the state the town was or is in, and the jurisdictions where records about the person was kept.

Gazetteer Contents

Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as:

• Different religious denominations
• Schools, colleges, and universities
• Major manufacturers, canals, docks, and railroad stations
• The population size.
• Boundaries of civil jurisdiction.
• Ecclesiastical jurisdiction(s)
• Longitude and latitude.
• Distances and direction from other from cities.
• Schools, colleges, and universities.
• Denominations and number of churches.
• Historical and biographical information on some individuals (usually high-ranking or famous individuals)