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Ancestry has put Meyers Orts online, searchable, and FREE! This is they way they describe it: This database contains Meyers Geographical and Commercial Gazetteer of the German Empire (or Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs in German). [One can] use it to locate place names in German research. ...Originally compiled in 1912; this is the gazetteer to use because it includes all areas that were part of the pre-World War I (WWI) German Empire. Gazetteers published after WWI may not include parts of the Empire that were lost to bordering countries. Overall, this gazetteer includes more than 210,000 cities, town, hamlets, villages, etc. Meyers Orts at Ancestry : http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=1074 Thanks to Barbara A. H. Nuehring who reported this exciting resource to the Pfalz list , saying, "it is not the easiest resource to use, but worth every minute of working your way through it. What is really nice about the digital image is that you don...

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°...