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 counties with information on published and unpublished land research.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 > >