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-A gazetteer is a dictionary of place names. Gazetteers describe towns, villages, churches and states, rivers and mountains, populations, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published and often their former names. The place names are generally listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary.
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+==Online Resources==
+=== Universal Gazetteers ===
+The following gazetteers are universal or near-universal:
-Gazetteers may also provide additional information about a town, such as its:
+*[https://www.google.com/maps Google Maps] Current information only.
+*[https://www.mapquest.com/ Mapquest] Current information only.
+*[https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] Includes historical information.
+*[http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp JewishGen Gazetteer] Includes mapping function.
+*[https://isodp.hof-university.de/fuzzyg/query/ Fuzzy Gazetteer] Includes mapping function.
+*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x002015025;view=1up;seq=5 Darby's Universal gazetteer, or, A new geographical dictionary] Online and searchable. Published 1826.
+*[http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/GOV Geschichtliche Ortsverzeichnis (Historical Gazetteer)] Provided by the Society for Computer Genealogy (Vereins für Computergenealogie). Site in German. See maps on home page for coverage areas.
+=== Other Websites ===
+*[http://gedcomindex.com/reference.html Misc gazetteers on Gedcomindex.com]
+==What Gazetteers Are==
+A gazetteer is a dictionary of place names. Gazetteers describe towns, villages, churches and states, rivers and mountains, populations, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published and often their former names. The place names are generally listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. Gazetteers can help you find the places where your family lived and determine the civil and church jurisdictions over those places. Gazetteers can also help you determine county jurisdictions used in the FamilySearch Catalog.
+==Information Gazetteers Contain==
+Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as:
+*The population size.
 *Boundaries of civil jurisdiction.
+*Ecclesiastical jurisdiction(s)
 *Longitude and latitude.
 *Distances and direction from other from cities.
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 *Denominations and number of churches.
 *Major manufacturing works, canals, docks, and railroad stations.
+*Different religious denominations
+*Schools, colleges, and universities
+*Major manufacturers, canals, docks, and railroad stations
+*Historical and biographical information on some individuals (usually high-ranking or famous individuals)
-You can use a gazetteer to locate the places where your family lived and to determine the civil jurisdictions over those places. For example, the town of Santa Rosa de Viterbo in the state of São Paulo was created in 1910. By searching a gazetteer one can learn that after 1944 this town was named Icaturama.
+== Gazetteers by Location ==
+*[[Category:Gazetteers]]
-There may be many places in Brazil with the same or similar names. You will need to use a gazetteer to identify the specific town where your ancestor lived and the jurisdictions of the municipality, district, and state where records about him or her were kept.
-To locate Lutheran and Catholic parishes as well as civil registration offices in Schleswig-Holstein, please use the Gemeindelexikon Schleswig-Holstein. FHL call number 943 E5kp or FHL film number 806635 Item 3.<br>Here is a diagram showing the column headings in German and their English translations:
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