-------- Original Message -------- Subject: gazetteers Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:32:15 +0000 From: Riley Moffat <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Aloha all: Geographic names change over time for a variety of reasons. Political boundaries change: e.g. German to Polish after WWII in Prussia. The way non-Roman alphabets are translated: e.g. Wade-Giles to Pinyin in China. Most BGN gazetteers were generated from the AMS map series many libraries have and are therefore basically the indexes to those maps. Again, if your library serves genealogists or historians, or have those AMS map sets, these are all good reasons not to toss those gazetteers. Riley Moffat, Senior Librarian Brigham Young University - Hawaii