gold bug place finder and mapper online is a gold mine

gold bug, the makers of animap now offer a terrific online place locating service which can map its results to google maps. it's called site finder, and is located | here |.

a description of this new free genealogy tool on company's home page concisely lays out a number of uses for the researcher:

SiteFinder Online lets you search for towns, cemeteries, schools, courthouses (and more) and plot them onto Google Maps where you can zoom in & out or overlay the SiteFinder locations onto satellite images of area you are studying. You can plot multiple items at once, or search for your exact point of interest. [source: Gold Bug, http://www.goldbug.com, accessed 9 jun 2006]