Speaking of old maps, here is another great site for them -- if you browse around, you'll find wonderful stuff. I'm particularly happy about the maps they've pulled from the 1877 Atlas for the Eastern Shore -- the maps include property resident names!!!  You can purchase, but don't have to, since you can zoom in and the watermarks don't obscure the text.  A great resource if you're researching that time period. http://antiquegalleryprints.com/Atlas/US/6826/Wicomico+-+Somerset+-+Worcester+Counties+1877/ -Wendy ________________________________ From: "lindat06@comcast.net" <lindat06@comcast.net> To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [LDR] Old Maps Online Wow, I really like that site!  It really cut through all the different map sites I had bookmarked.  It's the place to start looking now.  Thanks so much for sharing. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Just" <lisajust820@gmail.com> To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:59:11 AM Subject: [LDR] Old Maps Online Someone posted this on the librarian listerve to which I belong, and I just had to share it with the group. Old Maps Online is kind of like Google Maps for historical maps.  From the website: "It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution." It would be a great tool to use in determining the place names described in land tracts. http://www.oldmapsonline.org Lisa ***************************************

A large group on another mail list is tracing a cluster from 1660/80's Isle of Wight VA across several VA counties to arrive in 1740/50's Edgecombe, Granville, Halifax etc NC. Many of the families in the cluster were "on the ground", on this side of the pond before entering VA. Specifically, many come from various MD counties around the Bay. We have encountered an oddity: In 1690 an Isle of Wight VA jury hears the testimony of a John Regon who reports that Daniel Harrison and the woman Sarah that he lives with, that she has a husband in Maryland named Edward Jones. Every generation of this family has an Edward Jones, and we cannot find a Sarah. However, the family is key to the Brantley, Jones, Gant, Williams, Riggan cluster we are dragging If John is testifying, this is probably one of our Eds we have lost. It's a long shot, but has anyone seen an Edward Jones in any of the Eastern Shore loci in the 1680-1720 time period? and if so, who is he interacting with? Pat