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    1. [PAARMSTR-L] Finding Locations ANYWHERE
    2. Fred H. Held
    3. ATTENTION: individuals looking for locations in Pennsylvania or anywhere in the world. Here are several excellent free internet sources for finding locations. The US Government Maping Service has a site at http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html that gives many towns plus other details, including schools, churches, and cemeteries. Use your government resources. Select a county in a state and it will give you several pages of detail locations you can then identify on a high quality map you can print off. Modern townships are in the database. Just follow the instructions. Another free service is MapQuest at http://www.mapquest.com. This will give locations for any modern place in the world, including street maps of US and foreign cities. This is good for finding those little known places in Pennsylvania, as well as those small villages in Germany. (Note to Scott Stoner. Mapquest shows 4 Clintons in Pennsylvania. One on Butler Co and one in Armstrong Co The one in Armstrong Co is on the Allegheny River a few miles above Freeport. See the map forwarded.) A third outstanding location finder for Eastern Europe is ShtetlSeeker at http://www1.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm. This will locate small towns and villages anywhere in Eastern Europe, including Germany. It allows a Soundex variation, so you don't need the exact spelling. It responds with a table of possible hits, which you may then display the location via MapQuest, by just clicking on the Lat-Long given. It has the feature that you can enter a Lat-Long location of your own choice (closeby major city) and it will give you miles and direction from that point. The default direction and distance is from the country capitol. Another is only good for locations in Germany and is an email service called GeoServ. Go to http://www.qrz.com/gene/www/abt/geoserv.html to get instructions. This service is handled exclusively by email messages. Instead of using Soundex, it allows wildcard descriptions. Fred Held

    01/13/1998 09:06:09