From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Feb 10 19:47:25 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 k1B2lPE0009222; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:47:25 -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 k1B2lMoD019951 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:47:22 -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 k1B0IjFI010450 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:18:45 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1B0Ijgl010449 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:18:45 -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 k1AN5nFI010234 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:05:49 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1B1YFXu029020 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:34:15 -0700 X-Envelope-From: mscheffl@twcny.rr.com Fri Feb 10 18:34:15 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 k1B1YFE0029011 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:34:15 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.55]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1B1YDHH011972 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:34:13 -0700 Received: from 1070n (cpe-24-92-248-107.twcny.res.rr.com [24.92.248.107]) by ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1B1YAhL018181; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:34:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <02a501c62eab$41802400$6801a8c0@1070n> From: "MScheffler" To: , References: <46.7a0c9d1d.311e55fb@aol.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:34:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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] Re: Maps Jo and others, I too use a road atlas to frequently get a rough idea of where some of my ancestors lived. These are inexpensive and can be marked up without ruining a valuable book. Current state maps can be picked up at Triple A for free if one has a membership. If you don't have a membership to Triple A or similar travel service, perhaps a friend or family member can get some maps for you. Obviously I'm sure they don't want to give you more than a few at a time, but a few trips to the office could glean what one might need. I would think some modern European maps might be available too. Stores like Staples and Office Max have modern European maps and atlases. There may also be inexpensive wall maps covering a good portion of the world. I have seen small state maps with the counties named in the Red Book which has a variety of American State, County & town resources. Published census indexes sometimes have maps showing boundary changes in the front of the index. There is an interesting program called Animap which shows United States changing boundaries over time. While more expensive than a road atlas -- if one wants to pinpoint towns existing in the past that are nonexistent today or find how County boundaries changed over the years, this is an excellent piece of software. Anyone interested might like to look at www.goldbug.com As far as older European maps, I'll leave that to someone with some expertise in that area. Perhaps there is or will be software addressing boundary changes and the like for the rest of the world as Animap does for the US. I saw a link for world wide place names on the above url. Margaret Scheffler