Some of you may know about this one already but I just found it this morning. This site has historical maps of practically the whole world that can be viewed and printed for nothing! However, it will make you want to get highspeed internet access because they are big files. Here is the address: http://www.davidrumsey.com/ Click View the Collection Click Insight Browser Click Search to find what you want to see Click Data--after your thumbnail choices are visible. When you highlight a thumbnail a lot of information about the map will appear in the box on the left. If you scroll down to the bottom you can download the map into the Mr. Sid software. If you don't have Mr. Sid you can download it from there. Mr Sid is good stuff with which you can magnify, pan, save, and print what you see or the whole image. The 1879 Rand-McNally map of LA is fantastic. It has the township and range lines from the Louisiana Meridian, which just happens to run through the middle of the parish. For those of you who have enquired about such information here it is. For map nuts like me this is a dream site! I was sorry to learn of the death of Alvin Jones. Now we know why the genweb page was so far behind. He did good work with it until his accident. I look forward to the same sort of work from the new coordinator as soon as he becomes familiar with the process. I also look forward to all the information that is backlogged. Happy New Year everybody! Bruce Odom