I have been hesitating to say anything since I no longer have the URLs for them (virus wipe out)...but the Univ of Texas has an awesome map collection on-line. Have your kleenex boxes handy cuz it 'll make you salivate if you're into maps (and even if you aren't). They've got $1000 and $M maps... Chris, you better not look....<grin> There's a website that Don Watson has where he guarantees you can find any map from his links (his is a German list , but his website is supposed to be THE SOLUTION). He's the list owner of GERMAN-KINGDOMS-L (IIRC)..you can find it at rootsweb.com and then surf the rest of the way....or perhas Andrea knows him. There were also some excellent map links for that area via the Germans from Russia website (again..I no longer have the URL...sorry). All the maps at Ancestry.com are public domain documents and are in their free databases...click on "map center". There are some great maps online. There's also the Library of Congress map collection...online. malinda Chris Leonard wrote: > I have several levels of maps in hard copy--an inexpensive compact world > atlas, the latest map of France from Triple A, a sixties-vintage world atlas > that's as big as a coffee table--and the Concise New York Times Atlas of > World History (not sure of name, and I'm moving so it's packed already) > which has specialized maps (with battles, migration patterns) plus textual > commentary. > > If I can't find what I need on those I go to the library for the big old > atlases on stands. I also do web searches if I need something specific (say, > the Franche-Comte in the year 'The Red and The Black' was written.) > Sometimes I am lucky and find it--most times in fact, or at least something > close. Of course the more detailed the map (especially old handdrawn ones) > the longer it takes to download, and some folks don't have very fast > Internet connections. I have always wanted to own the oversize Atlas of > World History but it's over 200 and have never been able to afford it. > > For areas like Alsace that have changed hands so most towns have at least > two names, the French and the German versions, I would suggest getting the > most detailed current maps you can find, probably the Michelin maps, and > looking for a specialized history that has good maps of the changing borders > and, ideally, a gazeteer listing both names. > > I can't emphasize how important it is to know what's where now and who it > belonged to then in the periods you are researching. Even within the US I > have known amateur genealogists to waste time wondering about an ancestor's > supposed 'move' from one county to the next, when actually the county > boundaries changed and the ancestor stayed put. It would also be unfortunate > not to realize that ancestors born 20 years apart in what looks like two > different towns in different countries were born in the same town and one is > a German and the other a French version. > > I have been afflicted since childhood with 'cartophilia'--the love of > perusing maps--probably because when I was 3 we moved from Ohio to Arizona > and I played 'navigator' for my single mother who was driving. The names of > the places we went to are burned into my memory--Junction City, Abilene, > Albuquerque, Tucumcari, Flagstaff. Some day I'm going to have that oversized > historical atlas :). > > -- > "...we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in > France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with > growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our > Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall > fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the > streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender..." > ~Winston Churchill, June 4, 1940 > > ---------- > >From: "Robert W Fay" <madgrad77@clsurf.com> > >To: HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [HWE] Useful Maps > >Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2001, 2:51 PM > > > > > Hi Chris and all, > > > > Yes, thats a good suggestion, and I have been looking for > > these lately at the library but will probably have to buy one > > or several. 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