In a message dated 5/31/2006 9:14:35 PM Mountain Standard Time, barbarasrelatives@sbcglobal.net writes: An older map collection is on the UCLA website. See the Blaeu collection (drawn in the 1600s) at: http://www.library.ucla.edu/yrl/reference/maps/blaeu/index.htm Thanks for the URLs, Barbara. About the Blau maps: We have discussed the Berni Ruly -- the Tax Rolls of 1654 -- on this list. I mentioned that the districts drawn at that time were quite different from today's districts. The Berni Ruly is published in an alphabetical book of surnames for each didstrict at the time the tax rolls were compiled. There is also a composit index of all of the books that was published in 2002. The Blau Atlas has a map of Bohemia and one of Moravia that show the districts pretty much as they were when the Berni Ruly was done. There are also mapsn of Wurttemburg, Schwabia, Bavaria and the Bavarian Paltitinate which were the lands where some of our german ancestors originated before migrating to Bohemia. Karen