The following guides will help you in identifying research strategies for towns throughout New England and New York. It includes information on name changes for towns, settlement and incorporation dates, parent towns or counties and much more. Villages, smaller sections of towns, are not included in these guides. You will also find a helpful list of gazetteers owned by NEHGS as one of our online guides.

additional reference materials
Watch this space for valuable additions to your online reference library! We will continue to add materials such as maps, atlases, gazetteers, reference guides, and more on a regular basis.

John Hayward's Gazetteer of the United States of America

An Hibernian Atlas; or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland - 1798

For a list of where to get vital records visit the National Center for Health Statistics.

The U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer can be found at http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer