A new WebSearch gramplet is ready

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@DaveSch

I start with the place’s Wikipedia page which I attach to its record under the Internet tab. Much like @Davesellers I too use the FamilySearch Place record (although I only recently discovered it). For dates of the coming and going of counties in the U.S. I use the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

@Urchello

The FamilySearch place lookup (mentioned by @DaveSch and @Davesellers) appears to be a nice addition for WebSearch’s Place searches

It looks like it can pass the Place title as a URL ?text= parameter with comma/spaces substituted with %2C and %20.

For instance, I did a search for “New Castle, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, USA”

https://www.familysearch.org/en/research/places/?text=New%20Castle,%20Lawrence%20county,%20Pennsylvania,%20USA

It is not case-sensitive but returned more historical possibilities if I broadened the search by trimming out the the county (an administrative subdivision that is typically omitted in US postal addressing) and country/nation. I do not expect that WebSearch would trim the search parameters. I just found how the parameters affected the FamilySearch search results to be interesting.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/research/places/?text=New%20Castle%2C%20Pennsylvania