Search Ancestry from the Library
U.K. and U.S. census records, military records, passenger lists and more!
NOTE: Ancestry can only be used from computers in Eastern Regional Libraries.
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Maps & Gazetteers
Australia
Australian place names
Use this Search engine to find the location of places in Australia.
History of Places in Australia
Susie Zada’s index of cities, towns, suburbs and places in Australia.
Place Name Search
Place names of Australia from Geoscience Australia.
PlaceNames Online
South Australian state gazetteer.
Queensland Place Names
Gazetteer and information.
Victorian Place Names
The Register of Geographic Names, VICNAMES, holds more than 190,000 road and place names including landscape features such as mountains and rivers, bounded localities such as suburbs, towns, cities and regions, and physical infrastructure such as roads, reserves and schools.
Overseas
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
Contains more than one million names and other information about places.
Global Gazetteer
World’s cities and towns, arranged by country and linked to a position map.
National Library of Scotland
Over 4,000 maps of Scotland online
Ordnance Survey
Find place names and maps in U.K.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
More than 5,000 map images online, many historical.
Vision of Britain
A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Last updated October 14 2008
