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Maps

Google Earth : http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2005/07/google-earth-and-moon.html , Maps : http://maps.google.com , http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2005/02/google-maps.html National Atlas of the United States of America : http://nationalatlas.gov/ Maps of the Alsace : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/alsace/maps/ Maps of Scotland : http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/maps-of-scotland.html Oddens’ Bookmarks : http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.php Find out stuff about US places : http://www.epodunk.com/ (also easy links to maps) GNIS : http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic    The GNIS database provides longitude and latitude, but most of the mapping sites use street addresses. But click on a link labeled "GNIS in Google Map" to see its location on a Google map. Or, once you have found the longitude and latitude, you can go to Google Maps and enter that information, either in decimal format (44.798404, -68.827259) or as degrees/minutes/seconds (+44° 47&

USDA Soil Survey Maps

Originally published in UpFront with NGS, The Online Newsletter of the National Genealogical Society. http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront.htm , Volume 5, Number 1 - 1 January 2005 A recent article in the Library of Virginia's newsletter talks about a new preservation project currently being carried on which involves early 20th century soil survey materials. These are part of the Library's Federal Depository Library Program Collection and would, of course, be part of any Federal Depository Library's collection-Federal publications and other information products are made available for free public use in Federal depository libraries throughout the United States. These libraries can be located at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html . The Library of Virginia article describes the value of these early maps: The extremely colorful maps provide detailed information on soil content as well as information useful to genealogists and historians, such as place names, locations of b