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 They include pages for all Pennsylvania counties with information on published and unpublished land research.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