I have written before about the U.S. government’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database at http://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html that provides exact latitudes and longitudes for thousands of cemeteries and other named places within the United States. To find a cemetery, all you do is search the GNIS database, find the latitude and longitude for the cemetery you …
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Another Method of Finding Cemetery Locations
I have written before about the U.S. government’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database at http://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html that provides exact latitudes and longitudes for thousands of cemeteries and other named places within the United States. To find a cemetery, all you do is search the GNIS database, find the latitude and longitude for the cemetery you …
New Ancestry Archive Allows Argentines to Track Ancestors’ Arrival
The Centre for Latin American Migration Studies (CEMLA) has created a database spanning 160 years, helping Argentines discover how their ancestors arrived in the country. The database spans 160 years – from 1800 to 1960 – through which users can find out the ship of arrival and professions of over four million immigrants. CEMLA has …