> 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? None of those! The place names in the parish registers and hence in the IGI are parishes, not towns, villages etc. Many parishes, like Grange, are rural areas with no settlement of the same name, and parishes are not marked on modern maps, so the parish names tend to get lost. Other examples are Botriphnie (look for Drummuir on a map) Marnoch (Bridge of Marnoch or Aberchirder) Gamrie (Macduff) or better still, see the parish list at http://www.abdnet.co.uk/genuki/BAN/ HTH Anne