----------------------------Original message---------------------------- State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3331 David Y Allen Library-Reference 516 632-7110 22-Jul-1996 10:47am EDT FROM: DYALLEN TO: Remote Addressee ( [log in to unmask] ) Subject: Re.: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries is a project of the Center for Family and Community History of the Newberry Library and supported by a grant from the NEH. In spite of the strong credentials of this series, I think it is a questionable purchase for map libraries. Since it is being published on a state by state basis, it is no bargain, although it might make sense to buy the volume for your own state. An alternative is William Thorndale and William Dollarhide, _Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses_, which covers the entire country. Although the maps are more detailed in the Newberry series (and cover a wider range of time), they are not necessarily more accurate. In fact, I found an error in the Newberry volume for New York which is avoided in the Thorndale and Dollarhide volume. For those who need to know which side of a county boundary a particular street was on, there is still no substitute for locally produced sheet maps.