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Online Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places
 * World Gazetteers at Archive.org

Print Only Gazetteers

 * French West Indies : official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names United States. Board on Geographic Names. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Office of Geography, 1957
 * Communes & anciennes paroisses des Dom-Tom Paris, France : Editions Généalogiques de la Voûte, 2005
 * Bottin des communes - 1986 Paris, France : Didot-Bottin, c1986
 * Bottin des communes - 1988 Paris, France : Didot-Bottin, c1988
 * Bottin des communes - 1991 Paris, France : Editions Bottin, c1990
 * Bottin des communes - 2003 Paris, France : Editions du Juris-Classeur, 2003
 * Les engagements à Nantes vers les Iles d'Amerique de 1690 à 1734 Françoise et Jean-Marie Lore. Nantes, France : Contemporaine, 1987
 * La vie en Guadeloupe au XVIIe siècle : suivi du Dictionnaires des familles guadeloupéennes de 1635 à 1700 Jean et Denise Goddet-Langlois. Fort-de-France, Martinique : Editions Exbrayat, c1991

Why Use Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a dictionary of place-names. Gazetteers list or describe towns and villages, parishes, states, populations, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. Within a specific geographical area, the place-names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. You can use a gazetteer to locate the places where your family lived and to determine the civil and religious jurisdictions over those places.

There are many places within a country with similar or identical place-names. You will need to use a gazetteer to identify the specific town where your ancestor lived, the state the town was or is in, and the jurisdictions where records about the person was kept.

Gazetteer Contents
Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as:


 * Different religious denominations
 * Schools, colleges, and universities
 * Major manufacturers, canals, docks, and railroad stations
 * The population size.
 * Boundaries of civil jurisdiction.
 * Ecclesiastical jurisdiction(s)
 * Longitude and latitude.
 * Distances and direction from other from cities.
 * Schools, colleges, and universities.
 * Denominations and number of churches.
 * Historical and biographical information on some individuals (usually high-ranking or famous individuals)