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*:Three volumes of the ''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by J G Lorimer, Indian Civil Service, are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, being Parts I and II (missing Part III), of Volume 1, Historical, published 1915 and the Geographical section of Volume II, Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer, published 1908.::Both Parts of Volume I, Historical, have the same extensive index, covering all Parts. Part I consists of the 'Arabian' portion of the History. Part I Contents computer pages 12-137. Text commences cp 138. Part II consists of the 'Persian' section of the History. Part II Contents computer pages 10-133. Text commences cp 134. Appendix "Published books and articles" cp 1210. Part III (a portfolio of genealogical trees of the ruling families) is not available online.::Volume II Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer. There is no Index. Introduction pages i-iii are missing. The text is cp 8-2047 and appears to be all Geographical. The Statistical portion is perhaps another volume, which is not available online. :The Qatar Digital Library contains (at October 2014), copies of the original editions of ''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by J G Lorimer::[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023514760.0x00000b Volume I: Historical: Part II] and::[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023515711.0x00000d Volume II: Geographical and Statistical]: Click on “About this record” for information about the contents. To select a particular page, click on “View all items”.
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===Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia===
*Four out of six volumes of a reprint edition of ''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by J G Lorimer are available to read online at [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011590480 Hathi Trust Digital Library]
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**[http://worldpostmarks.net/HTML%20Countries/IndiaandStates.htm India and States] Pre-Independence India and Princely States.([https://web.archive.org/web/20120120201731/http://worldpostmarks.net/HTML%20Countries/IndiaandStates.htm archive.org] link). Sourced from ''English Names for Indian Places; a Coded Index of Indian Post Offices'' by Marcus F C Martin, published 1966. Available at the [[British Library]]
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*"Finding the Obscure and the Elusive: Geographic Information On the Web". A presentation by James L. Tanner at Rootstech 2013 [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/rootstech/original/Maps%2520Syllabus%2520.pdf?1348261228 html version], [http://s3.amazonaws.com/rootstech/original/Maps%20Syllabus%20.pdf?1348261228 Finding the Obscure and the Elusive: Geographic Information On the Webpdf] A presentation by James L. Tanner at Rootstech 2013
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