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Finding Hard To Find Locations
How to find locations that are not on maps or in software, and plot them on maps. Also with county boundary changes over time, a couple of tips for finding which county to look in.
In this video I cover:
SiteFinder on GoldBug
http://goldbug.com/
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names
http://geonames.usgs.gov/
Libre Map Project
http://libremap.org/
Heritage Quest (Check for availability in your area)
http://www.eogen.com/heritagequestonline
USGenWeb Project
http://usgenweb.org/
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Comment by Diane Lott on August 19, 2009 at 1:32pm -
OK but looking (at least right now) for foreign locations in Europe (Austria/Hungary 1800's, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia 1800-early 1900.
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Comment by Katherine McArthur on August 19, 2009 at 1:23pm -
Very good, thank you. I have enjoyed a few of your videos and I have learned a lot from each one.
Kathy
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