-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ePodunk.com--searching towns by former names Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:38:14 -0500 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] ------------------ 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 [log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027 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 ----- Forwarded by ahudson/MHT/Nypl on 12/28/2004 03:37 PM ----- Ruth A Carr To: Ana Peralta/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, 12/28/2004 12:43 arubenstein/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, avasquez/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, PM Charles Scala/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, James Dewar/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, jfalconi/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, Maira Liriano/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, pclarke/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, Robert Scott/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, vrutigliano/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, ahudson/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, Matt Knutzen/MHT/Nypl@NYPL, nkandoian/MHT/Nypl@NYPL cc: Subject: ePodunk.com ----- Forwarded by Ruth A Carr/MHT/Nypl on 12/28/2004 12:38 PM ----- ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:30:18 -0500 From: "Laurie Bennett" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [Genealib] Database of former community names To: <[log in to unmask]> Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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addition of former place names is designed to help genealogy researchers link historic documents - which may include outdated place names - to current resources such as local libraries, archives, cemeteries and historical societies.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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.acomp.usf.edu/pipermail/genealib/attachments/20041228/a8bccf5a/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ genealib mailing list [log in to unmask] http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/mailman/listinfo/genealib End of genealib Digest, Vol 15, Issue 25 ****************************************