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*'''Fire insurance maps (Sanborn maps)''' of 12,000 cities and towns yield street names and specific properties and addresses starting in 1867. Using these with city directories can help locate urban ancestors in a given year. | *'''Fire insurance maps (Sanborn maps)''' of 12,000 cities and towns yield street names and specific properties and addresses starting in 1867. Using these with city directories can help locate urban ancestors in a given year. | ||
*'''Gazetteer''' is a geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup, social statistics and physical features of a country, region, or continent.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Gazetteer," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer, accessed 25 April 2018.</ref> | *'''Gazetteer''' is a geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup, social statistics and physical features of a country, region, or continent.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Gazetteer," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer, accessed 25 April 2018.</ref> | ||
*'''Historical Geographies''' focus on how geographic phenomena has changed over type.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Historical geography," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_geography, accessed 25 April 2018.</ref> | *'''Historical Geographies''' focus on how geographic phenomena has changed over type. Although historical geographies tend to focus on human impact in an area, it can also include ecological, geological, and environmental changes as well.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Historical geography," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_geography, accessed 25 April 2018.</ref> | ||
*'''Land ownership (cadastral) maps and plat books''' show boundaries of land plots, and usually the owners' names. | *'''Land ownership (cadastral) maps and plat books''' show boundaries of land plots, and usually the owners' names. | ||
*'''Local histories''' focus on the history of a geographic area and a local community. It usually incorporates cultural and social aspects of a place's history.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Local history," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_history, accessed 25 April 2018.</ref> | *'''Local histories''' focus on the history of a geographic area and a local community. It usually incorporates cultural and social aspects of a place's history.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Local history," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_history, accessed 25 April 2018.</ref> | ||