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Subject: ePodunk.com--searching towns by former names
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:38:14 -0500
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mapsters, fyi!! please see below
Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788
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http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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Ruth A Carr
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Subject: ePodunk.com
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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:30:18 -0500
From: "Laurie Bennett" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [Genealib] Database of former community names
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I wanted to let folks know about a feature we've just launched, allowing
researchers to search for communities by their former names.
ePodunk.com, which is free, is designed to help web users find information
about American cities and towns. Our database now includes:
- information about every county in the U.S.
- profiles of more than 27,000 cities, towns, villages and hamlets
- more than 12,000 common misspellings of American place names
- more than 5,000 former place names of communities in 37 states. (We plan
to have national coverage with the new database by early 2005.)
The addition of former place names is designed to help genealogy
researchers
link historic documents - which may include outdated place names - to
current resources such as local libraries, archives, cemeteries and
historical societies.
The new database draws from hundreds of published sources to compile a list
of prior post office names, railroad depots, plat names, informal place
names, and merged communities.
The site is compiled by journalists formerly with the Detroit Free Press,
the New York Times on the Web and American demographics magazine. You can
find us at http://www.epodunk.com
Laurie Bennett
ePodunk - celebrating the power of place
http://www.epodunk.com
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