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    1. [PALANCAS] Free Genealogical Workshops at The Perry Historians
    2. Donna Heller Zinn
    3. Hello Folks: The Perry Historians, a genealogical library located northeast of New Bloomfield, Perry Co., PA. on Rt.34 are going to be holding our annual Genealogical Workshop (a Beginners Workshop) at the Harry Lenig Library on Saturday, March 7, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Please note that this year we are breaking our workshops into two groups - as we have had many folks in the past who were just starting out and we could not concentrate on what you do when you begin family research and the sources available - we had to split the day devoting the secondhalf to those who had been doing research for a while. But on this day (March 7th) we will be holding our workshop for those who are beginning their family tree. Then on Saturday, April 4, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., we will be holding another Genealogical Workshop - this time an Advanced resource day for those who have been doing research for a while and may need assistance and suggestions on how to "break those walls down". All are welcome and it is FREE of charge. All we ask is that you let us know at least a week in advance that you may be attending - so that we have enough handouts available - by e-mailing: [email protected] For more information about our library - you can check out our website: www.ThePerryHistorians.org Look forward to seeing you there! Donna Heller Zinn volunteer / Director of The Perry Historians

    02/08/2009 04:18:04
    1. [PALANCAS] Warrantee SURVEY maps ARE free...and available
    2. Keith McKain
    3. As a follow-up - these are SURVEYS of individual plots. They also show neighbors and some geographical features (creeks etc). Keith Keith McKain wrote: > But they ARE available - searching right now for all - I have captured a > number for Lancaster County. As I recall - you need to use the INDEX > for each County -- found at: > > http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-88WarrantRegisters/r17-88AllCountiesInterface.htm > > then make note of the last FIVE columns... (Where Recorded - Vol-No-Pg ) > & especially the last TWO (Where Survey is copied - Book and Page). > Then... go to: > > http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/r17-114MainInterfacePage.htm > > and look up the Book and Page you want. Not an easy system - but it CAN > be done with patience - I have many images of the Surveys!! > > Keith > -- Keith A. McKain McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 - # Mc17936 Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 Email: [email protected]

    02/07/2009 02:40:08
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] Warrantee maps are (mostly) not free...but it would be nice if they were!
    2. Keith McKain
    3. But they ARE available - searching right now for all - I have captured a number for Lancaster County. As I recall - you need to use the INDEX for each County -- found at: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-88WarrantRegisters/r17-88AllCountiesInterface.htm then make note of the last FIVE columns... (Where Recorded - Vol-No-Pg ) & especially the last TWO (Where Survey is copied - Book and Page). Then... go to: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/r17-114MainInterfacePage.htm and look up the Book and Page you want. Not an easy system - but it CAN be done with patience - I have many images of the Surveys!! Keith -- Keith A. McKain McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 - # Mc17936 Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 Email: [email protected] [email protected] wrote: > Except for the map of Conestoga? Twp.( that I just viewed that Jim S. just told us all about that is free to view there), these maps are unfortunately ?not on-line, and are not free.?It would be nice if they, like census records today, would become more accessible and? available with less expense some day.? What is free is the PA state site where you can search under the indexes, and then pull up individual surveys by a page reference obtained from the index one by one.? That is going one property owner at a time, often with neighbors listed along the sides. But this is like pulling out individual pieces of a giant jig saw puzzle one by one. They do not recreate the maps of the townships, and don't tell you how all the pieces fit together.??A ?cartographer is best skilled to do that.?It would likewise also be difficult to pull just one piece out and to place that piece?on a current day map. > > I have been currently in contact with the cartographer who is piecing the pieces together for the townships of Cumberland Co. and Franklin Co., and some (but not nearly all) of the townships for those counties?are also currently available now.??But they are right now priced well above the warrantee maps for other counties' townships that are available from Harrisburg.? York Co.'s warrantee maps?I noticed last night were published in book form too,?and ?the indexes only are on-line from York Co. as well as being at the Harrisburg site, and as I understand it? individual books are sold?for each township there.? Lancaster Co. apparently did a far better job of at least republishing all townships at once in book form. Often people crossed township lines and owned multiple properties in adjoining or even non-adjoining townships. Many times a father would purchase properties for his sons to later move to.? It is even possible that if one of those was purchased after the father'! s ! > own property that it may appear among the indexed warantees?if the father was the original land owner, while his own property may not, if he was a subsequent land owner, even though the son's property was purchased well after the father's. ?Most townships in most counties of PA are not available in book form, and these you have to? check with at Harrisburg to see if those township maps are even available. For states other than PA there is an attorney who is preparing books which can be purchased on a county basis, and those are now available for sale for many counties in OH, MI, and other states west of PA.? There is a web-site, but I don't have it at hand. I prefer the entire map as a whole, but these books break the townships down as they can't usually fit on one page.? I prefer to look at one large map. > > > These warrantee maps ( and the books based on them) are good for a number of reasons, though they are more useful to advanced genealogists: > > -to place any given property of any original land owner?in the context of the county as a whole back then, as well as today, ?i.e. to travel today?to the land?where someone deceased who was the original land owner? once lived. ? > -to show how one or more related parties who were both original land owners in the same area lived to one another. > -to examine who the roughly contemporaneous families were, and examine them on your own in other resources in more detail to find any possible interconnections. > > > > > Richard B. > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >

    02/07/2009 12:58:52
    1. [PALANCAS] Warrantee maps are (mostly) not free...but it would be nice if they were!
    2. Except for the map of Conestoga? Twp.( that I just viewed that Jim S. just told us all about that is free to view there), these maps are unfortunately ?not on-line, and are not free.?It would be nice if they, like census records today, would become more accessible and? available with less expense some day.? What is free is the PA state site where you can search under the indexes, and then pull up individual surveys by a page reference obtained from the index one by one.? That is going one property owner at a time, often with neighbors listed along the sides. But this is like pulling out individual pieces of a giant jig saw puzzle one by one. They do not recreate the maps of the townships, and don't tell you how all the pieces fit together.??A ?cartographer is best skilled to do that.?It would likewise also be difficult to pull just one piece out and to place that piece?on a current day map. I have been currently in contact with the cartographer who is piecing the pieces together for the townships of Cumberland Co. and Franklin Co., and some (but not nearly all) of the townships for those counties?are also currently available now.??But they are right now priced well above the warrantee maps for other counties' townships that are available from Harrisburg.? York Co.'s warrantee maps?I noticed last night were published in book form too,?and ?the indexes only are on-line from York Co. as well as being at the Harrisburg site, and as I understand it? individual books are sold?for each township there.? Lancaster Co. apparently did a far better job of at least republishing all townships at once in book form. Often people crossed township lines and owned multiple properties in adjoining or even non-adjoining townships. Many times a father would purchase properties for his sons to later move to.? It is even possible that if one of those was purchased after the father's ! own property that it may appear among the indexed warantees?if the father was the original land owner, while his own property may not, if he was a subsequent land owner, even though the son's property was purchased well after the father's. ?Most townships in most counties of PA are not available in book form, and these you have to? check with at Harrisburg to see if those township maps are even available. For states other than PA there is an attorney who is preparing books which can be purchased on a county basis, and those are now available for sale for many counties in OH, MI, and other states west of PA.? There is a web-site, but I don't have it at hand. I prefer the entire map as a whole, but these books break the townships down as they can't usually fit on one page.? I prefer to look at one large map. These warrantee maps ( and the books based on them) are good for a number of reasons, though they are more useful to advanced genealogists: -to place any given property of any original land owner?in the context of the county as a whole back then, as well as today, ?i.e. to travel today?to the land?where someone deceased who was the original land owner? once lived. ? -to show how one or more related parties who were both original land owners in the same area lived to one another. -to examine who the roughly contemporaneous families were, and examine them on your own in other resources in more detail to find any possible interconnections. Richard B.

    02/07/2009 11:20:12
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] Warrantee Map Availability and Patent Question
    2. James Stokes
    3. Thanks for posting the Ancestortracks.com address, I had the 1864 Maps for our area earlier but lost them in a hard drive crash, I wasn't able to find them again until you posted this address.  Thanks.                                                                                                          Jim   ________________________________ From: Ed Wevodau <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2009 7:10:59 AM Subject: [PALANCAS] Warrantee Map Availability and Patent Question Please forgive if this was posted earlier--if so, I did not recognize it. Visit ancestortracks.com for most Pennsylvania warrantee maps. This is a for profit site; however, the proprietors have compiled a considerable amount of free data, including high quality scans of the 1864 Lancaster Atlas that shows landowners. They include pages for all Pennsylvania counties with information on published and unpublished land research. I frequently use the old landowner atlases for sundry counties that are posted on the site. They offer CD's, including Lancaster County, that have high quality scans (jpeg and pdf) of all township warrantee maps. I have been able to enlarge these maps to 600 percent without loss of quality and can easily copy and paste the portions I want into files or a Paintworks-type program for editing. I imagine someday the State Archives should scan and post the same for free, but I think the CD's cost about $20 per county as compared to the cost of currently purchasing individual township maps from the State for about $6 or $7 per township. And here's a lazy question that I haven't posed yet to the State Archives: Does anyone have any knowledge as to when additional land records will be posted on the State Archives website? It would seem that original warrants and patents would be the final complements to the data already available. ------------------------------- 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

    02/07/2009 05:28:25
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] Warrantee Map Availability and Patent Question
    2. Barbara
    3. Ed There are already original images of Surveys, Warrants, and Patents at Pennsylvania State Archives Pennsylvania State Archives http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ On the left hand side, click on "Research" and on the new page click on Land Records Ed Wevodau wrote: > Please forgive if this was posted earlier--if so, I did not recognize > it. > > Visit ancestortracks.com for most Pennsylvania warrantee maps. This is a > for profit site; however, the proprietors have compiled a considerable > amount of free data, including high quality scans of the 1864 Lancaster > Atlas that shows landowners. They include pages for all Pennsylvania > counties with information on published and unpublished land research. I > frequently use the old landowner atlases for sundry counties that are > posted on the site. > > They offer CD's, including Lancaster County, that have high quality > scans (jpeg and pdf) of all township warrantee maps. I have been able to > enlarge these maps to 600 percent without loss of quality and can easily > copy and paste the portions I want into files or a Paintworks-type > program for editing. > > I imagine someday the State Archives should scan and post the same for > free, but I think the CD's cost about $20 per county as compared to the > cost of currently purchasing individual township maps from the State for > about $6 or $7 per township. > > And here's a lazy question that I haven't posed yet to the State > Archives: Does anyone have any knowledge as to when additional land > records will be posted on the State Archives website? It would seem that > original warrants and patents would be the final complements to the data > already available. > > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.19/1938 - Release Date: 02/05/09 11:34:00 > >

    02/06/2009 11:29:18
    1. [PALANCAS] Warrantee Map Availability and Patent Question
    2. Ed Wevodau
    3. Please forgive if this was posted earlier--if so, I did not recognize it. Visit ancestortracks.com for most Pennsylvania warrantee maps. This is a for profit site; however, the proprietors have compiled a considerable amount of free data, including high quality scans of the 1864 Lancaster Atlas that shows landowners. They include pages for all Pennsylvania counties with information on published and unpublished land research. I frequently use the old landowner atlases for sundry counties that are posted on the site. They offer CD's, including Lancaster County, that have high quality scans (jpeg and pdf) of all township warrantee maps. I have been able to enlarge these maps to 600 percent without loss of quality and can easily copy and paste the portions I want into files or a Paintworks-type program for editing. I imagine someday the State Archives should scan and post the same for free, but I think the CD's cost about $20 per county as compared to the cost of currently purchasing individual township maps from the State for about $6 or $7 per township. And here's a lazy question that I haven't posed yet to the State Archives: Does anyone have any knowledge as to when additional land records will be posted on the State Archives website? It would seem that original warrants and patents would be the final complements to the data already available.

    02/06/2009 11:10:59
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] warrantee maps far predate other --date into the 1700's--source
    2. In a message dated 2/6/2009 1:33:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Or if anyone needs the website for where they can purchase from the state I > can provide that.? > > Richard B. > Richard Would you please provide the website Thanks Douglas Burnett Satellite Beach FL ************** Stay up to date on the latest news - from sports scores to stocks and so much more. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000022)

    02/06/2009 07:01:48
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] warrantee maps far predate other maps --date intothe 1700's
    2. Ron Davis
    3. Jim, Large images, such as the 3.5 feet x 3.5 feet, can be scanned and / or reduced at many places. I typically use Staples or a local shop for scans of this size. The last time I had a large scan, the drawing was 24" x 36", the cost was $5.99 plus tax. They can save the drawing as a tiff, jpg, pdf, etceteras. I import the scan into my CAD program and modify them as needed. A PhotoShop or similar program can also resize them. Ron Davis Woodland, CA James Stokes wrote: > Hi Folks, >      Warrent maps ......  I wish we had warrent maps for the other townships in our area but no one has done a small copy of those townships...... >                                                                                                            Jim > Conestoga Area Historical Society > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pacahs/index.htm

    02/06/2009 07:00:24
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] warrantee maps far predate other maps --date into the 1700's
    2. Maria Campbell
    3. Price List for Warrantee Township Maps In PA: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/BAH/DAM/WarranteeTwpMapPrices.htm State Land Records Order Form: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/Land%20Record%20Order%20Form.pdf Warrant Maps of Lancaster County, PA: Including an Every-name Index by Geri Gilbert available from Masthof Bookstore: http://www.masthof.com/bookstore/bookstore_viewbook.php?id=1687 > So far as I know they are only available for sale through > Harrisburg, but if anyone knows otherwise please post to this list.? > Or if anyone needs the website for where they can purchase from the > state I can provide that.?

    02/06/2009 06:45:08
    1. [PALANCAS] warrantee maps far predate other maps --date into the 1700's
    2. I would like to?mention the far earlier warrantee maps for Lancaster and many?other counties of PA.? These maps were all drawn up years (centuries?) after the fact, but are still the most useful maps for those of us who had forebears who were the first owners of the land, especially going back to the 1700's.? They are drawn up by township, and are available for sale by individual townships.? Not all counties of PA are completed, but I believe all those for Lancaster Co. have long been completed.? Keep in mind that all these individual warrants were pieced together like a giant jig saw puzzle, and show the original properties with the names of their original owners.? Keep in mind people first purchased their lands at all different times, so that the names listed on the maps are not necessarily people who lived contemporaneously in the same area.? But it is very helpful to look them over to see in general who were the groups of people who lived in the same neighborhoods at rou! ghly the same period of time, which with much of Lancaster was the early or mid 1750's. So far as I know they are only available for sale through Harrisburg, but if anyone knows otherwise please post to this list.? Or if anyone needs the website for where they can purchase from the state I can provide that.? Richard B.

    02/06/2009 06:32:09
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] warrantee maps far predate other --date into the 1700's--source
    2. Barbara
    3. And they are free. Barbara wrote: > You can find Land Warrants, Surveys, and Patents here. > > Pennsylvania State Archives > http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ > > [email protected] wrote: >> In a message dated 2/6/2009 1:33:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> >>> Or if anyone needs the website for where they can purchase from the state I >>> can provide that.? >>> >>> Richard B. >>> >>> >> >> Richard >> Would you please provide the website >> Thanks >> Douglas Burnett >> Satellite Beach >> FL >> >> >> ************** >> Stay up to date on the latest news - from sports scores to >> stocks and so much more. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000022) >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.18/1936 - Release Date: 02/05/09 11:34:00 >> >>

    02/06/2009 06:12:28
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] warrantee maps far predate other --date into the 1700's--source
    2. Barbara
    3. You can find Land Warrants, Surveys, and Patents here. Pennsylvania State Archives http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 2/6/2009 1:33:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > >> Or if anyone needs the website for where they can purchase from the state I >> can provide that.? >> >> Richard B. >> >> > > Richard > Would you please provide the website > Thanks > Douglas Burnett > Satellite Beach > FL > > > ************** > Stay up to date on the latest news - from sports scores to > stocks and so much more. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000022) > > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.18/1936 - Release Date: 02/05/09 11:34:00 > >

    02/06/2009 06:12:09
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] warrantee maps far predate other maps --date into the 1700's
    2. James Stokes
    3. Hi Folks,      Warrent maps constitute the first purchasers of land in Pa., those that bought land from the Penns.  Subsequent purchases of this laned would show up in the deed books.  Warrent maps are very large, about 3and a half feet by 3 and a half feet, two large to scan and put on a web page.  We have the warrent map for Conestoga Twp. on our web page but we only have it because someone made a sketch of the warrent map on a piece of 8.5 by 11 paper that could be scanned.  I wish we had warrent maps for the other townships in our area but no one has done a small copy of those townships.      The Conesotga Area Historical Society covers, Conestoga, Pequea, Manor, Martic townships and Millersville and the former Washington Boro, now part of Manor Twp.      I've recently added some material from our 2008 museum display, Life in the Manor, on our web page.  Most of this is of historical interest but the "History in Newspapers" folder has many marriages and deaths for these townships.  In addition there are lists of people who served in the various wars from our townships, revolutionary, civil, World War I and 2, Korea and the Iraq wars.      Lots of information for people working on these townships.                                                                                                            Jim Conestoga Area Historical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pacahs/index.htm      ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 6, 2009 1:32:09 PM Subject: [PALANCAS] warrantee maps far predate other maps --date into the 1700's I would like to?mention the far earlier warrantee maps for Lancaster and many?other counties of PA.? These maps were all drawn up years (centuries?) after the fact, but are still the most useful maps for those of us who had forebears who were the first owners of the land, especially going back to the 1700's.? They are drawn up by township, and are available for sale by individual townships.? Not all counties of PA are completed, but I believe all those for Lancaster Co. have long been completed.? Keep in mind that all these individual warrants were pieced together like a giant jig saw puzzle, and show the original properties with the names of their original owners.? Keep in mind people first purchased their lands at all different times, so that the names listed on the maps are not necessarily people who lived contemporaneously in the same area.? But it is very helpful to look them over to see in general who were the groups of people who lived in the same neighborhoods at rou! ghly the same period of time, which with much of Lancaster was the early or mid 1750's. So far as I know they are only available for sale through Harrisburg, but if anyone knows otherwise please post to this list.? Or if anyone needs the website for where they can purchase from the state I can provide that.? Richard B. ------------------------------- 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

    02/06/2009 04:49:19
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] Lancaster County Map
    2. TheBridgen's 1864 Atlas was published in 2000 by the Elizabethtown Historical Society. The 1899 Atlas reprint is a wonderful investment.?? Yvonne -----Original Message----- From: Karl Moyer <[email protected]> To: Lancaster County-L <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 1:47 pm Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Lancaster County Map > In my experience over some 38 years, one of greatest help,s and seemingly > a secret to most family history researchers, is the Lancaster County > Atlases, of which even in clases or in print is not mentioned. We can be > thankful that there ARE at least THREE; 1864, 1875 and 1899. Amen! The 1899 atlas has been lovingly and carefully reprinted, and we can only hope that those of 1864 and 1875 will similarly become available to us soon. Karl E. Moyer Lancaster PA ------------------------------- 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

    02/05/2009 08:57:16
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] Lancaster County Map
    2. Maria Campbell
    3. The map comes from a collection of digital records which are available on-line at the PA Historical & Museum Commission: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=2887&&PageID=383882&level=2&parentCommID=2887&menuLevel=Level_2&mode=2 Other digital collections include: ARIAS (the Archives Records Information Access System) Doc Heritage Land Records Vital Statistics Military Records Agricultural Census of 1850 I find this site difficult to use. I find lots of useful information but often stumble across it by accident. Does anyone have any helpful suggestions on more easily navigating this site? For example, I was looking at Land Record indexes this morning. It took me quite a while until I found the actually images of the land surveys that were referred to in the indexes. http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-522WhitesideMaps/r017-522WhitesideMapInterface.htm#melish-whiteside (The main index for the available county maps). "The maps were the result of the work of John Melish, a geographer, traveler, and entrepeneur who convinced the Pennsylvania legislature to fund this ambitious cartographic project. Under enabling legislation passed on March 19, 1816, a number of deputy surveyors spread out across the Commonwealth. Over the ensuing years, these surveyors would produce maps for each county, which could then be assembled into a full and accurate map of the state. The deputy surveyors handed over their completed maps to the surveyor general, who in turn sent the maps to Melish for copying and engraving. But before these maps were delivered, a clerk made an office copy of the original. The first clerk to execute these copies was named John Whiteside, and since his signature appears on these versions, they have become known as the “Whiteside Maps” (several copies were also rendered by a Dan Small). Melish submitted his completed Pennsylvania map to the legislature in March 1822, which overwhelmingly approved his work, claiming the map was “an exquisite specimen of graphic skill,” and well worth the $29,276.75 spent on the project." > > > Wonderful map, many thanks....what is the reference Melish-Whiteside > Maps

    02/05/2009 06:59:37
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] Lancaster County Map
    2. Karl Moyer
    3. > In my experience over some 38 years, one of greatest help,s and seemingly > a secret to most family history researchers, is the Lancaster County > Atlases, of which even in clases or in print is not mentioned. We can be > thankful that there ARE at least THREE; 1864, 1875 and 1899. Amen! The 1899 atlas has been lovingly and carefully reprinted, and we can only hope that those of 1864 and 1875 will similarly become available to us soon. Karl E. Moyer Lancaster PA

    02/05/2009 06:47:52
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] Lancaster County Map
    2. Bill Whiteside
    3. Maria, Wonderful map, many thanks....what is the reference Melish-Whiteside Maps Bill Whiteside [email protected] . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maria Campbell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:44 AM Subject: [PALANCAS] Lancaster County Map > From the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission: > > Melish-Whiteside Maps, 1816-1821 > > A nice earlier map of Lancaster County showing township boundaries at > the time: > > http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-522WhitesideMaps/r017-Map3362-WhitesideLancaster%20(88-21).pdf > > ------------------------------- > 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

    02/05/2009 06:21:46
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] Lancaster County Map
    2. Daniel E Weinhold
    3. To genealogist, especially of Lancaster County, PA and may apply to other area,s: In my experience over some 38 years, one of greatest help,s and seemingly a secret to most family history researchers, is the Lancaster County Atlases, of which even in clases or in print is not mentioned. We can be thankful that there ARE at least THREE; 1864, 1875 and 1899. There are other maps of earlier years, yes, but NOT as detailed. These three maps are also very helpful to those who are seeking help in regards to the age of a house or early ownership. These same maps show who owned the house at the time it was "drawn" , but also may show WHO lived there, that is, if the owner LIVED there at the time! In the larger Towns, perhaps not, but in the villages and along the county roads, it even may show the out buildings and of course who may have lived next door or "down or up" the road!! If one is seeking an early date for an OLD house, start with the 1864 Atlas and then "visit" the County Courthouse, in other words one needs NOT search through every prior owner, saving time. With the earlier maps as was shown, it does give a number of very early names for some creeks etc., and maybe some roads, which were, and does assist one in researching places as recorded in DEED,s and Will,s. Most , if not all local libraries and historical societies should have copies and some may be bought locally. I am hoping the above may help some researcher,s as it has been a big help to me over these many year,s Ernest. ____________________________________________________________ Start a Web Site! Hosting for only $3.95/mo. Free setup! http://offers.juno.com/TGL1141/?u=http://www.freeservers.com

    02/05/2009 06:07:50
    1. Re: [PALANCAS] Lancaster County Map
    2. Thank you, Maria. For those of you who might also have had a problem. It doesn't work to just click on the URL—at least it didn't here. But if I copied and pasted the whole line (through the "pdf," it did work. > From the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission: > > Melish-Whiteside Maps, 1816-1821 > > A nice earlier map of Lancaster County showing township boundaries at > the time: > > http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-522WhitesideMaps/r017-Map3362-WhitesideLancaster%20(88-21).pdf > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

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