Posts about maps, place name research, geographical resources, and surname mapping for genealogy research in the United States and Europe.
Today's post is about a free historical atlas for genealogy research. Can a 1932 U.S. historical atlas provide information on colonial towns, enslaved ancestors, European immigration, or other genealogy research? The answer is yes, [...]
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. [...]
