The following is a slightly edited item sent in by Charles McCormick, which should be of interest. Thanks Charles. Caveat: neither Charles nor I have any connection with the services detailed in the first item - it is recommended that you do as the writer suggests and "check out" the web site first. >PUBLICATION : The Guardian (Charlottetown) >DATE : 2004.04.20 >SECTION: Features PAGE: C3 >COLUMN: Missing Links >SOURCE: Special to The Guardian (Charlottetown) BYLINE: Sandra Devlin > >HEADLINE: Putting genealogy on the map >If your early ancestors are from Ireland, Scotland, England or Wales, >you will want to check out a series of maps created by historian and >cartographer John Garnons William based on genealogical data from >sources like the Domesday Book and Book of Kells. >His Family Name Maps of Medieval Ireland and Clan Maps of Scotland >show more than 300 family and clan surnames. >The maps of England, the English counties and Wales show place names >now used as surnames all over the English-speaking world with the >spelling from the Domesday Book recorded in 1086 being the oldest >recorded spelling. >Although the English started using surnames about 1100, these names >often changed from generation to generation and hereditary surnames >only came into general usage from the mid-1400s. "The maps have >proven highly popular in Europe but have had very little exposure in >North America where so many of British and Irish descent are now >resident," says John's son Chris. >These 50 fascinating hand-coloured maps show nearly 10,000 place >names of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. >The maps of Ireland and Scotland also show nearly 300 family and >clan names in their earliest forms. >To make the maps fully accessible and enjoyable to expert and non- >expert alike, each comes with a free black and white key map showing >the modern spelling of every place name marked. >The Irish, Scots and Welch maps each come with a comprehensive >booklet giving a early history of the country, as well as the meaning >of every family and place name shown. >The Williams' Domesday Collection might be the most important series >of hand-drawn historical and genealogical maps to be drawn this >century. >On completion of his Domesday England series of county maps in 1986, >John was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. >Prices range from $21-$75 (US). >Contact 68 Ellesmere Road, Shrewsbury, SY1 2QP United Kingdom; >website: http://www.gwp.enta.net > >ROOT-TOOT >MORE MAPS: Maps, plans and charts is one of the newest categories >on Archivia, the National Archives' website, www.archives.ca. There >are interesting 17th and 18th century maps of Atlantic <Canada>, as >well as 1895 electoral maps. > >Missing Links is published every Tuesday in The Guardian. Send >surname queries and notices to Sandra Devlin, 81 Weston St., >Moncton, N.B., E1A 7B8; e-mail: sdevlin4770@rogers.com >Queries for publication are limited to 35 words plus forwarding >address. >Responses to individual searchers should be sent directly to them.