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*Denominations and number of churches. | *Denominations and number of churches. | ||
*Major manufacturing works, canals, docks, and railroad stations. | *Major manufacturing works, canals, docks, and railroad stations. | ||
== Gazetteers of Specific Places == | |||
Most locations will have a link under Background to a page about gazetteers. If the location you are researching is not listed here, try looking under the location>background>gazetteers | |||
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|[[United States Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Australia Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Alabama Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Nebraska Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Austria Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Alaska Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Nevada Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Belgium Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Arizona Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[New Hampshire Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Canada Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Arkansas Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[New Jersey Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Denmark Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[California Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[New Mexico Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[England Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Colorado Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[New York Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[France Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Connecticut Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[North Carolina Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Germany Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Delaware Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[North Dakota Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Greece Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Florida Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Ohio Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Hungary Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Georgia Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Oklahoma Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Iceland Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Hawaii Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Oregon Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Ireland Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Idaho Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Pennsylvania Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Italy Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Illinois Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Rhode Island Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Mexico Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Indiana Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[South Carolina Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Netherlands Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Iowa Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[South Dakota Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Norway Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Kansas Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Tennessee Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Poland Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Kentucky Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Texas Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Portugal Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Louisiana Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Utah Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Russia Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Maine Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Vermont Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Scotland Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Maryland Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Virginia Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[South Africa Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Massachusetts Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Washington Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Spain Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Michigan Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[West Virginia Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Sweden Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Minnesota Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Wisconsin Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Switzerland Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Mississippi Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Wyoming Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Wales Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Missouri Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[American Samoa Gazetteers]] | |||
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|[[Jewish Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Montana Gazetteers]] | |||
|[[Puerto Rico Gazetteers]] | |||
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== Universal Gazetteers == | == Universal Gazetteers == | ||
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*[https://www.mapquest.com/ Mapquest] Current information only. | *[https://www.mapquest.com/ Mapquest] Current information only. | ||
*[https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] Includes historical information. | *[https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] Includes historical information. | ||
*[http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp JewishGen Gazetteer] Includes | *[http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp JewishGen Gazetteer] Includes mapping function. | ||
*[http:// | *[http://dma.jrc.it/services/fuzzyg/ JRC Fuzzy Gazetteer] Includes mapping function. | ||
*[http:// | *[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] | |||
[[Category:Gazetteers]] | [[Category:Gazetteers]] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:43, 15 December 2021
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.
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.
- Schools, colleges, and universities.
- Denominations and number of churches.
- Major manufacturing works, canals, docks, and railroad stations.
Gazetteers of Specific Places[edit | edit source]
Most locations will have a link under Background to a page about gazetteers. If the location you are researching is not listed here, try looking under the location>background>gazetteers
Universal Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
The following gazetteers are universal or near-universal:
- Google Maps Current information only.
- Mapquest Current information only.
- Wikipedia Includes historical information.
- JewishGen Gazetteer Includes mapping function.
- JRC Fuzzy Gazetteer Includes mapping function.
- Darby's Universal gazetteer, or, A new geographical dictionary Online and searchable. Published 1826.
- 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.