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.

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 > >