I saw this on another mailing list and thought that some of you may be interested. I have no affiliation with this organization other than simply being one of their customers. From their website: "The Project is all about making CDs of old and rare books available to genealogists and historians at a reasonable price. It is a "user supported" project." ======================================================================== Hi folks, A fabulous new CD released today: The National Gazetteer of the United States 1884. A comprehensive account of every State, territory, county, city, town and village throughout the Union, with populations from the last national census (1880). Incredibly useful information about railroads, navigation, lakes, rivers, rivers, canals, mountains and valleys as well as the physical and statistical geography of the country. ======================================================================== This CD complements another earlier 1854 USA gazetteer which we released some time ago. When we released the 1854 we expected it to do quite well, but to our *amazement* we have managed to part with very, very few indeed. :-( Now, these books contain details of *every* place in the United States. As an example one of my wife's relatives emigrated from Scotland in the 1870's and fetched up in a place called Cobham Va, growing grapes. The entry in 1884 for the place says 'Cobham Va., p.v. (post village) Co (county), 15m. E. of Charlottesville. Pop 85.' (note that the population figure is taken from the 1880 census). Using this information I can tell you that Mr Bird and family accounted for more than 10% of the whole village! Obviously, being such a tiny place it only gets a tiny mention but the fact is that it *is* in the book. I also looked up Tombstone, Arizona and was amazed to find that it was even smaller than Cobham was, with only 80 people there in 1880! I did a bit of digging and found out that Tombstone's population just a year later was estimated to be up to seven *thousand*, and around fifteen thousand in 1885! Today it is about 1500. The entries for some of the bigger places though are just fantastic, with lots of history and interesting facts about each place. Plus details of the population numbers in 1880. So why did the 1854 CD apparently appeal to so few people? The truth is that we did not effectively promote the CD on the American genealogy mailing lists because we simply did not know which ones to mention it on. This is where you wonderful supporters of Archive CD Books really can make a difference. There *must* be some of you folks out there who are active on American Lists and I would like to appeal to those of you who are to try and give this new CD a bit of a push, it really does deserve to reach a wider audience. I was told earlier this week by an American supporter of The Project that this 1884 CD might prove more popular, simply because there were more and more people pouring into the USA and creating new towns and villages all over the country. Time will tell. The web pages are at http://wwww.acrchivecdbooks.com Use the online catalogue and the site map to get to the USA pages You all might like to take a look at the latest releases page as well (I've updated that three times *already* today). ======================================================================== The Project is all about making CDs of old and rare books available to genealogists and historians at a reasonable price. It is a "user supported" project. Some of these books have been kindly lent to the project by various individuals, some from County Record Offices, museums, family history societies and libraries, and some which we have purchased. All of them are old and rare. Many of those books purchased from book dealers (no matter how expensive they were) are subsequently given away to one of the above organisations. We all gain ======================================================================== Best wishes to you all -- Rob Dewsall ARCHIVE CD BOOKS - old books for genealogists reproduced on CD Mailing list : CDBOOKS-L@rootsweb.com (for discussions) Weekly News : CDBOOKS-NEWS-L@rootsweb.com (weekly announcements & news) E-mail : enquiries@archivecdbooks.com Web : http://www.archivecdbooks.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

I apologize, the web page address to the Archive CD Books project was incorrect in my original posting. Try this http://www.archivecdbooks.com Regards, Nancy _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com