Marilyn wrote: > I find references to Grange, Banff, in the International Genealogical > Index, but when I look for this place in MapPoint or Mapquest, it > cannot find any such town in Banffshire. Has this place been absorbed > into another, larger town? Or disappeared entirely? Or just changed > its name? Karen has already answered, pointing you towards: www.abdnet.co.uk/genuki/BAN/Grange but can I put in a plug for the work that Ray Hennessy and I are doing on producing a Gazetteer of Banffshire placenames? We are gradually working through the County, but have finished Grange, so if you scroll down the above page to the section headed 'Names, Geographical', you will find a link to an extensive list of placenames in the parish. On a more general point, note that, when the IGI or other sources give an 'address' for some 19th century baptism or marriage, this is generally given in the form: 'parish name, county name'. Many of the rural parishes contained no town, some of them not even a significant village. Grange is one that falls into this category. In modern usage, the parishes have ceased to be used for any administrative purpose, and the counties have changed, with many (such as Banffshire) disappearing completely. Which is why you will not find many places via modern sites such as Mapquest. However, there is help available. The work that Ray and I are doing grows out of (and feeds into) the online Gazetteer maintained by GENUKI. This is available at various URLs, but if you go to the main GENUKI County page for Banffshire (www.abdnet.co.uk/genuki/BAN/) you will see a list of Banffshire parishes, and if you scroll down , you will see a link to the Gazetteer. If you do a search, you will get a readout which lists placenames by parish, and the data includes a column of map references in the form 'AB123456'. Click on this link, and you will be taken to a further page which offers a choice of links to online maps where you can see where your target place is (although not all historical name appear on modern maps). Gavin Bell