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Homeward Bound
4/1/2004
These offline maps, atlases and gazetteers may contain information you won't find on the Web.
In your euphoria over online mapping tools' bells and whistles, don't forget old-fashioned place-finding resources. Traditional maps, atlases and gazetteers such as these often contain information you won't find on the Web:

? Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources edited by Alice Eichholz (Ancestry)

? Atlas of Historical County Boundaries series (Charles Scribner's Sons)

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