Bill, Thank you for this excellent tip! I can clearly see my ancestors' lands on the Allegheny Mountain in Somerset County along with their neighbors. Very enlightening. Thanks again for sharing this. Related to this, does anyone know if the Burkharts and Cohenours/Gochenours of Allegheny Township, Somerset County were German Baptist, or became German Baptist? We know that the John Gans family who lived nearby was German Baptist and moved to the Nimishillen settlement in Stark County, Ohio. One of my family (Elizabeth Shaffer) married John Gans Jr. John Shafer > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:30:06 -0400 > Subject: [BRE] Vintage Maps > > I am not sure if this was mentioned before, and if it was, I apologize. The > website of the Pennsylvania Archives has 1816 vintage maps in PDF format > that you can download. > > > > At first view, they look like maps showing only township boundaries and > major towns. However, if you blow them up to 200% scale or greater, you > will see that these maps have homestead locations, tributary names, and > other landmarks of interest. They have maps for every County in > Pennsylvania (at least those that existed in 1816), but the map index > appears to cover the entire state. > > > > Bill Thomas > > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > Support Our Sponsoring Agency > The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG) > For further information contact Ron McAdams mailto:[email protected] > ------------------------ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message