From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Feb 10 13:50:53 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1AKorE0016914; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:50:53 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1AKoqYG002218 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:50:52 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1AIMGFI009781 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:22:16 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1AIMGsw009780 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:22:16 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1AIJeFI009721 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:19:41 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1AKm6TY016091 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:48:06 -0700 X-Envelope-From: GenBrd@aol.com Fri Feb 10 13:48:06 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1AKm6E0016080 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:48:06 -0700 Received: from imo-m26.mx.aol.com (imo-m26.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.7]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1AKm5gT000664 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:48:05 -0700 Received: from GenBrd@aol.com by imo-m26.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id e.46.7a0c9d1d (63024) for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:47:55 -0500 (EST) From: GenBrd@aol.com Message-ID: <46.7a0c9d1d.311e55fb@aol.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:47:55 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 2340 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Maps I saw the reference to the fact that people should have maps for the area they are searching. Personally, I use a road atlas because it gives me all of the US in one location. Certainly there are drawbacks, not every town is listed. However... I use an old Geographic Nameserver website to find the general location for the town I am searching. So if you do not have a map - try that option. It will give you the county and the longitude/latitude so you can find it. However...I would like to ask where one gets individual state maps if you do not travel to those states? I have found no source for them in my area. And what about other countries? Many of the European countries had border changes with each war, so when my grandmother told me that her family was German and came from a certain town, I was unable to find it. It was only years later that I learned that it was now part of Poland after the wars. So how do you find a map of Germany from 1850 that will tell you what you want to know? I am not new to genealogy, I have been at if for 25 years. But I have no knowledge of how to get those elusive maps so I rely on my own resources and so far that has worked. Jo .