On the various lists I attend there have been a lot of inquiries regarding the location of places. It is clear that many people are not aware of the wonderful resources available at their fingertips through their home computer. For those of you without good maps in the glove compartment or in the kitchen drawer, try some of the following links to locate those usual and unusual place names: order incredibly detailed atlases of any state (I don't leave home without my Delorme!): http://www.delorme.com/atlases/newyork.htm Geographic names and places finder: http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html Address finders: http://www.concierge.com/cgi-bin/maps.cgi?link=find http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py Fro more detailed topographic quadrangle maps (roads, rivers, hills, etc.): http://www.topozone.com/find.asp http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/gis/repository/usgsdrg.htm http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/gis/repository/quadndx1.htm http://cugir.mannlib.cornell.edu/browse_lis/quad_list.html Historic maps of New York State: http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/nypath1.htm http://users.erols.com/weiskotten/illustrations&maps.html There are hundreds more sites. Dan W.