Welcome to Histopolis.com
Histopolis is a free, collaborative source for genealogy and history information
including links to other relevant sites.
Enhanced Mapping / Survey Townships - New
The Histopolis mapping support has been enhanced and now includes Survey townships.
See What's New for
additional details.
Histopolis Place-of-the-Day
The Histopolis Place-of-the-Day for Thursday, May 17, 2012 is Montgomery Cemetery in Grant Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Explore Montgomery Cemetery on Histopolis now. If you have a place that you would like to see featured as the Histopolis Place-of-the-Day, contact the webmaster to suggest it.
See
Place-of-The-Day
for today's place and links to all of the previous places.
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Histopolis is supported by advertising and donations, there is no charge to use
the site -- no subscription is needed. You don't need an account to use the site
but a simple, free registration is required to contribute. All users and contributions
are welcome.
Cemeteries and Other Places
Histopolis has information on 130,000 cemeteries and 220,000 cities,
towns, villages, townships, counties and states in the
United States
and
Puerto Rico
. There is a separate page for each of these places containing:
- Name including alternate names the place may be known by.
- Map showing the place location and the borders of relevant governmental jurisdictions.
- Links to sites containing relevant genealogy or history information.
- Subdivisions such as counties, township and cities.
- Cemeteries located within the place.
The
Cemeteries
page provides a quick and easy way to see the cemeteries in a county. See
Place Hierarchy
for more information on how places are organized on Histopolis.
Browsing by Location
You can browse for cemeteries and other places by location by starting with the
country page (United States
or
Puerto Rico
) and then navigating to a state page, then a county page, etc. The pages for counties
and lower level subdivisions contain a list of the cemeteries located within them.
State pages contain a link to a separate page listing the cemeteries within them.
If you don't know the name of a cemetery but can locate it on a map, you can navigate
to it by locating it on the map for a county, township or city and double clicking
the cemetery marker. Just click on the "Show Area Cemeteries" checkbox under the
map to show all of the known cemeteries for that place.
Place Navigation Bar
The place navigation bar ("Select a Place") at the top of each page provides a quick
way to navigate to a specific place without visiting each of the pages in the place
hierarchy. Just select a country from the drop down list and another drop down list
containing the states for that country will be displayed. Continue the process until
you have selected the place you want and then click the "Go" button.
See
Place Navigation
for more information on how to navigate to places on Histopolis.
Searching by Name
The place navigation bar can also be used to search for a place by name. Use the
place navigation dropdown lists to select the place you want to search, such as
"United States; Texas", then enter in the place name and click search. A list of
the places matching your search will be displayed.
Histopolis Grave Index - New
The new grave index significanly extends the capabilities of the exiting place-specific
resource links. See
What's New
for the details.
Wanted: Links to Quality Genealogy Content
If you have a genealogy website we invite you to add links to your content. For
example, if you have a website with a page containing headstone photos or transcriptions
from
Fairview Cemetery
in
Sarpy County
,
Nebraska
, you can navigate to our
Fairview Cemetery
page and add a link to your page containing your information. Please contact the
webmaster to arrange for the bulk
loading of links.
You can contribute links to your favorite genealogy resource pages by navigating
to the place (state, county, township, city or cemetery) and adding the link there.
Give it a try!
Link to Us!
Histopolis.com encourages and appreciates links from relevant genealogy and history
web sites, blogs and other online sources. See our new
Link to Us page for additional information on linking to us.
What's New
Check out the What's New
page for recent site improvements (last updated 1 February 2011).
Statistics
Updated 21 March 2011
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Place-Specific Resources
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Over 185,000 links
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Surname-Specific Resources
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Over 335,000 surnames
Over 255,000 links
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Histopolis Grave Index
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Over 2,300,000 entries
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US Site Ranking
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Top 40,000 Sites
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