Hello again from Texas Landmarks and Vanished Communities TxGenWeb Project More on the new TXGenWeb page, "Texas Landmarks and Vanished Communities." This page is where you can look up locations of historical landmarks and vanished communities as well as family farms and businesses. If it is not listed then you can submit the info - maybe you are the only one who really knows where it is located. In fact we encourage you to add your knowledge of your county to this page. If grandpa talked or wrote about it we would like for it to be listed. You can find your county listed in the Landmark & Vanished Communities Index at: http://www.hcnews.com/~landmark. Do you have some landmark information but don't remember how to use latitude and longitude or don't remember how to determine Latitude and longitude? Then check out the U.S. Government TIGER Map Service at: http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl Browse around the TIGER System and you will easily learn how to use this system to find a detail map of any place in the USA. Practice using "Zoom Out". Zoom In" and "Move To a New Center" When you find the general location of a historical landmark that is not listed then turn on the option "Place marker (select a symbol below)" Click "ON THE IMAGE TO" heading. Point to the location on the map where your landmark is located and click. Bingo there is your map with the the location of your feature marked. Scroll down to near the bottom of the page and look under "place marker on this map" and there is the lat & lon coordinates of your land mark. When you are satisfied with your coordinates then go to: http://www.hcnews.com/~landmark/howto.htm and submit your landmark data. If you don't have lat/lon in ddmmss (example: 325045N 0973456W) format then use decimal degree notation, (example: 32.4768 lat or -97.5786 lon.) Again, your input is needed. If the landmark you are interested in is listed but does not have a description please consider submitting it. BTW County Coordinators are encouraged to provide a link on their county page to the companion Landmark and Vanished Communities WebPage. Frank Saffarrans General Coordinator TxGenWeb Landmark and Vanished Community Project