This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yYB.2ACI/14981 Message Board Post: Historic Atlas Series: Indiana, Illinois and Ohio currently online. Michigan will be added by May 1st. The Ohio atlas includes statistical data and sections on: Agriculture, Canals, Climate Map, Climatology, Colleges, County Evolution, Land Grants of Ohio, Geological Map, Geology, History, Schools and Seminaries, Post Offices, Railways, Statistics and Surveys of Ohio. Multiple adjacent county maps are useful for identifying 1868 transportation routes, railroads, canals and early Ohio place names. The 25 city maps in the Atlas are much more detailed with many early government and industrial sites including: a variety of mills, cemeteries, churches, schools, asylums, fair grounds, race tracks, business locations, etc. Ohio: http://www.stores.ebay.com/historicatlasseriesbyhar/plistings/list/all/dept3/index.html?dir=1&col=4&sotimedisplay=2&refid=store Each Illinois and Indiana atlas CD consists of a series of 8 or more bordering counties making up 1 of 11 Zones that depict all of each state's counties. Each Zone Atlas contains high resolution scanned images of vintage 1876 county maps that are presented in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Each county map may include the following 19th century features: * roads, railroads and canals * cities, towns and villages * post offices and government sites * one-room schoolhouses, churches and cemeteries * rivers, streams and ferries * industrial sites, furnaces and mills * early homesteads and farms * and much, much more Indiana: http://www.stores.ebay.com/historicatlasseriesbyhar/plistings/list/all/dept2/index.html?dir=1&col=4&sotimedisplay=2&refid=store Illinois: http://www.stores.ebay.com/historicatlasseriesbyhar/plistings/list/all/dept1/index.html?dir=1&col=4&sotimedisplay=2&refid=store The Historic Atlas series is an invaluable aid to Genealogists, Historians and researchers in search of 19th century places. The Adobe Acrobat Reader for MS Windows is needed to view, zoom, pan and print from the PDF map images contained in this atlas; and is included free on each CD. No other software is necessary. Historic Atlas Series At eBay: http://www.stores.ebay.com/historicatlasseriesbyhar?refid=store or online… Indiana: http://www.har-indy.com/in_map/in_index.html Illinois: http://www.har-indy.com/il_map/il_index.html Ohio: http://www.har-indy.com/oh_map/oh_index.html