Howdy Howdy! I found the following taken from Ancestry's daily newsletter interesting. I chose Ohio and found that a town of "Turkey" is shown northwest of Sinkingsprings in Highland Co., Ohio where my ancestors lived. This town is not on the map today and I don't remember anyone speaking of this town when growing up there. Got my curiosity up! Thought I'd send the information along to the list just in case it might interest someone else. You may find a similar interest for your folks' location. Take heed about the size of the file though! Only access it if you have plenty of time and lots of RAM. If you decide to copy it, you'll need lots of disk space as well. Read on... Enjoy! Nancy Listowner ============================================== 1895 Atlas Now Online! Here's a hearty congratulations to Pam Rietsch, Coordinator of the Livingston County MI - U.S. GenWeb Site. Pam has spent the last 16 months completing an Online version of the 1895 Atlas. The site can be found at: http://www.ismi.net/lcmigw The following is Pam's explanation of the project. **** Well almost 16 months after I began the project, the data entry portion of the 1895 Atlas is complete. All of the states, except Alaska (which has a map only) plus the District of Columbia have data which shows what towns where around in that time period. Each town also shows the population, the county it is located in, where in the state it is located, whether it has a post office, a railroad station or an express office. This is especially helpful if you have some sort of a record from either the 1880 census or the 1900 and in some case state census of 1885 where it shows a town that cannot be found on current maps. So many small towns over the years have either totally disappeared, or been merged with other larger towns and have for all intents and purposes vanished. The nice thing about this project is that you can also download a map of the state also to see the exact placement of your town in question. Watch the site over the next few months as I intend to do lots more to make it more user friendly....and will also be scanning in the world maps that came with the atlas. I will not have data for them, but I think the old maps could prove useful in research. The site can be found at: http://www.ismi.net/lcmigw Several people have had difficulties in printing out the maps, so I now have a special page set up with instructions on how to accomplish this feat, just a click away. If there is anything I can do that would help you to use the Atlas better, please feel free to contact me. Remember to do your "hug homework" ! Pam Proud Corporate Sponsor of RootsWeb, why not support them today for all they have done for the world of genealogy? http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html As always, the cost for this information is for you to go out and give someone a hug right now, whether they feel they need it or not because time is so fleeting, they may not be there next time you have the urge. Brought to you by the "List Lady" Coordinator of : Livingston County MI - U.S. GenWeb Site: 5881 Richardson Rd. Howell MI 48843-7451 (734)878-9121 FAX (734)878-9352 >[email protected]< ==============================================