Thank you Leona!!! Karen GenealogyBug <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Everyone! A few years ago a friend of my husband's who worked in the county engineer's office, knowing my interest in Franklin County history and genealogy, handed Dave (hubby) a bundle of eighteen sheets of paper. Each sheet was about 30 inches square. Each was a circa 1895 plat map of one of the eighteen townships in Franklin County. With the exception of city/town lots, each parcel has the name of the owner and the acreage printed inside the parcel. I wanted to find a way to share this bounty with others, but I don't have the patience required for some projects. So I put it on my "Honey dew" list for Dave's retirement. During the past week he scanned each map in segments and then "stitched" them together. The results are, in my slightly biased opinion, fantastic. He put them in PDF files so that they can be magnified to read the names better. Some of the maps are more easily read than others--remember they are copies of copies of copies. One last comment--they are very large files and for those with dial-up modems they will take a long time to download. Please be patient. The plat maps are the last items on my Franklin County ALHN Maps page: http://www.genealogybug.net/franklin_county/maps.htm Enjoy! Leona ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ohio American Local History Network (ALHN) http://www.genealogybug.net/ohio_alhn/ohio.htm Franklin County, Ohio ALHN http://www.genealogybug.net/franklin_county/franklin.htm Franklin County, Ohio Gravestone Photos &c. http://www.genealogybug.net/Franklin_Cemeteries/index.html ------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.