Posts about maps, place name research, geographical resources, and surname mapping for genealogy research in the United States and Europe.
Interested in visualizing Chicago before the Great Fire of 1871? If you have a lot of ancestors in Chicago, like I do, inevitably you find yourself wondering about life there before 1871. Recently the [...]
Maps and genealogy = big topic. So let's narrow it down to the Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and its database, the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). How can these federal resources help your [...]
Today's post is about Google Maps and Uncommunicative Records. I only wish I'd thought of this work-around sooner for place research. I've had a love-hate relationship with turn-of-the-(20th)-century Cook County marriage licenses for years now. [...]
Place Names Research at FamilySearch makes geographic research easier. What began as a tool called Standard Finder from the FamilySearch Labs back in 2010 has evolved. Now available at www.familysearch.org/research/places, this resource has a simple search interface [...]
