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From: Nancy Howard <>
Subject: Re: Need sites for locating old towns? TGN
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 11:18:44 -0800 (PST)

Hi Linda,
You may find the place in the new Getty Center web site. Be sure
you type in only ONE name of a place, not the state, etc. The Getty is
at:
http://www.ahip.getty.edu/tgn

I keep it bookmarked,
Nancy Howard

--- wrote:
>
> I need some help locating a town, does anyone have the URL's for
some sites
> that will search for old place names?
>
> I already tried the US Gazeteer, and have been having major problems
with the
> Geographic Names Information System Online Data Base Query Form.
Everytime I
> try to execute a search from this site I get an error message about an
> "invalid virtual host" or something like that.
>
> thanks for any suggestions!
>
> Linda
>
>
>

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