As someone who has never worked with the tithe maps, can someone tell me what is the earliest year for which they are availalbe? Donna TILLINGHAST Casey From Michigan, USA.....but on my way to East Sussex for more research on June 27! If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. Pearl Buck

Hi   And just to add that tithe maps were not actually produced for every parish in the country. If the Tithe Commissioners decided that an area was already sufficiently well mapped and detailed - for instance, by a local landowner - then they didn't bother to survey it themselves, but relied on the existing information. I don't know how many districts this affects, or whether it affects any in Sussex.   Also worth mentioning that they generally cover rural rather than urban areas, as the land within most towns was not subject to tithes.   Kathleen --- On Mon, 6/23/08, Donna Casey <donnacasey@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Donna Casey <donnacasey@yahoo.com> Subject: [SFHG] Tithe Maps: A Question To: "SFHG SxFamHXGrp" <sfhg-l@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 1:49 PM As someone who has never worked with the tithe maps, can someone tell me what is the earliest year for which they are availalbe? Donna TILLINGHAST Casey From Michigan, USA.....but on my way to East Sussex for more research on June 27! If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. Pearl Buck ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message