That is excellent Boyd. I love maps! Its amazing what they can do now with the reprographic quality compared to the early 1980s when many of the Church registers were filmed. I hate looking at some of films where everything is "black"!!I can remember watching the young Mormon lads working away in their wee wooden hut up at PRONIHow far we have come since then. best wishes and keep up the good work. Robert www.ulsterancestry.com > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:31:09 +0100 > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] Abercorn Papers > > The microfilm I was looking at is full of maps, obviously in black and white > and with no idea of the size of the original but they are indeed very > clearly filmes, easy to read and extremely useful as they have a key to who > held each plot and there is often an indication of who a plot passed to at > some time. The maps were of various dates but the ones I looked at were > 1777 and 1806: > > > > D623/D1/14-20 Irish estate maps & valuations:Survey of Derrygoon Manor > (partof), ca. 1756. Comments on Liskey, Clonleagh, 1765. Survey of Dernalebe > & Skinboy, ca. 1775. Maps of the Abercorn estate in the manors of Donelong, > Strabane, Cloghogle, & Derrygoon, in Tyrone, 1777, and Magavlin & Lismoghry > in Donegal, 1781. Valuations of Manors of Strabane, Cloghogle and Derrygoon, > 1777. Value of Strabane fields,1799. Family History Library BRITISH > Film 1885920 Items 1-8 > > > > D623/D1/21,23-27 Irish estate maps and valuations: Map of Baronscourt Park, > 1800. Maps of the manors of Strabane, Cloghogle, and Donelong, 1806. Maps of > the manors of Magavlin and Lismulmagh [sic],1806. Valuation of Ardstraw > churchlands (See of Derry), 1807. Family History Library BRITISH > Film 1885920 Items 9-15 > > > > And the rent books are even better because they DO show when land changed > hand and sometimes even state what relation the new lease holder was to the > old of if the land was sold to the new owner and therefore probably not a > relation. Think GVRBs but better! > > > > It is very exciting that these have been made available to the whole world > by the Mormons. People really should get them ordered in to their FHC if > they have ancestors on Abercorn land. Like Robert said in another post, I > am now pushing the research back another two generations. > > Boyd Gray > > http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/default.htm > > http://www.westulstergenealogy.com/ > > http://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy > > > > _____ > > From: Ulster Ancestry [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 10 April 2013 15:10 > To: Mike Kelly; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Cc: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: [CoTyIre] Abercorn Papers > > > > Mike, > > > > Among the original paper records are large bound volumes of hand drawn and > coloured 18th century maps detailing the Estate. > > I don't know if they have been filmed or even if they could be read on film > as each map is perhaps 3 feet x 2 feet. > > > > best regards > > > > Robert > > > > www.ulsterancestry.com > SNIP > > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://cotyroneireland.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message