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Online Gazetteers

• FamilySearch Places
• Venezuela - MIT GeoWeb
• Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in Venezuela
• Google Maps World Gazetteer - Venezuela
• Venezuela Selected Rankings
• Cities in Venezuela
• Wikipedia Venezuela

Print Only Gazetteers

• Latin America in Focus: Venezuela Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols and Kimberly J. Morse, ABC-CLIO, 2010
• Venezuela: A Question and Answer Book, Karen Bush Gibson, Capstone, 2006
• División político territorial de Venezuela, Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales Renovables, Servicio Autónomo de Geografía y Cartografía Nacional, 1989
• Geografía de Venezuela y geografía física universal, Juan Jones Parra, Filmado por la Socidad Genealógica de Utah, 1973
• Nomenclador de centros poblados, total nacional : XII censo general de población y vivienda, , Oficina Central de Estadística e Informática, 1994

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)