Maps tend to be an superb source for starting your research, since they offer significantly helpful information and facts right away. Numerous historical maps show specific structures and therefore are particularly helpful simply because they additionally document owners’ names along with features within the neighboring communites. More in depth maps uncover property or home acreage as well as property names. Simply by analyzing a number of maps, it will be possible to date modifications in your property over time.
One can scarcely perform complete, significant research regarding almost any family line without having including the effective use of maps in some major way. Maps are usually so abundant, such interesting and fascinating resources, and are available in a lot of types that their own analysis and use could possibly turn into an avocation by itself. Maps are just among the many resources you might need to complete a family tree. In family history and genealogy, maps are generally used as clues to where public or some other documents pertaining to an ancestor could be found. Looking for maps rarely starts until a novice to ancestry and genealogy has perfected basic genealogical practices. Preliminary guides regarding genealogy advise timesaving methods to plan, obtain, organize, as well as document findings.
New and old maps typically uncover changing place names, plus they can also reveal adjustments to the borders of countries as well as their subdivisions. They seldom identify specific landowners or inhabitants. In the U.S., birth, death, property, and a few different kinds of documents are usually retained by county government authorities. Whenever you can identify the place where a family member was living, new or old maps of the location could also indicate the county seat where by helpful information regarding your family member might be acquired.
State Maps
Each State page contains rotating animated maps showing all the county boundry changes & all the county boundries for each census year for each year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundries, downloadable County D.O.T. Maps and state atlas maps.
Old Atlas Maps
We have images of old american atlases during the years 1750 to 1900. These are scanned from the original copies so you can see the states and counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in North America. Images are between 500k and 6 meg so allow a few moments to load if you are using a dial-up connection.
1776 American Atlas Map
1795 American Atlas Map
1804 General Atlas Map
1814 General Atlas Map
1814 Europe Atlas Map
1822 American Atlas Map
1827 American Atlas
1836 Atlas Map
1836 Europe Countries
1845 Morse’s North American Atlas Map
1856 Colton’s Atlas Map of the World
1856 U.S. City Maps
1856 Europe and Asia
1866 U.S. General Land Office Maps
1880 New General United States Atlas
1880 U.S. City Maps
United States Maps
- United States Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.org)
- United States Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers (ancestry.com) Maps are an invaluable part of family history research, especially if you live far from where your ancestor lived. Because political boundaries often changed, historic maps are critical in helping you discover the precise location of your ancestor’s hometown, what land they owned, who their neighbors were, and more.
- United States Maps (lib.utexas.edu) The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
- U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 (ancestry.com)
- American Memory Map Collection: 1500-2004 (memory.loc.gov) extensive selection from the Library of Congress Map Collections, focusing on Americana and cartographic treasures.
- United States Map Books - Amazon.com
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