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Using Maps in Genealogical Research - An overview of both physical and online maps including: Historical Atlases: State and County, Plat (Land ownership), inside details on Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, along with Panoramic, Migration, Topographical, and others. Looks at using maps with other records and using them to help find other records. 

Article

Historical Maps Can Help - Everton's Genealogical Helper, January/February 2007, page 16.

Read Historical Maps Can Help at GATJ

Maps

• • • USGS Mapping Information: GNIS Data Base Query

    • Google Maps - Maps with Satellite Images - Use dropdown, more, Terrain for topo!

    • The Library of Congress - Online Map Collections - Great place to start!

      • Search by Location or type of map - wide variety of maps

      • Civil War Maps

      • Panoramic Maps - Library of Congress

      • Railroad Maps 1828-1900

      • Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps - About the Collection

    • The Arthur H. Robinson Map Library - Madison, Wisconsin

• • • MyTopo.com - Free topographical maps

    • Color Landform Atlas

Maps of Europe, Eastern Europe, Canada, and US

• • • Via Michelin

    • Ordnance Survey - Great Britian

    • Ordnance Survey Ireland 

    • Napoleon Cadastral Maps

    • Fed. Of Eastern Europe FHS - Online Map Room

    • JewishGen ShtetlSeeker

    • Find Lat & Long of Central & Eastern Europe towns - links to Mapquest

      • German City Maps

Maps - Historic

• • • Atlas of Historical County Boundaries - Newberry Library - then Select a State, Interactive Map, set Date

    • David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

    • Historic MapWorks - county maps

    • TopoView USGS - https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/

various maps for different years – Show or Download

• • • Map & Geographic Info Center of U of Conn. - https://magic.lib.uconn.edu/

  • Historical Maps of the US & much more - Perry-Castañeda Library @ The Univ. of Texas

  • ManyRoads’ Map Libraries - European & US

  • Map & Geographic Info Center of U of Conn.

Mainly Connecticut & New England - 1834 Map of US, 1755 middle British Colonies - large files

• • Ancestry.com - $ Historical Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers

• • Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps - see Library of Congress above

  • Sanborn Maps at UC Berkeley

    • Georgia in color

    • Pennsylvania in color

  • Utah in color

    • Wikipedia - Sanborn Maps - list of online maps at the bottom of the page