Joe Connell wrote: > To be honest, I haven't yet made much use of maps.familysearch.org > I've just been exploring it now and although I'm impressed, I think I > still > prefer Kain and Oliver's "electronic maps". Is there a website for these maps - or somewhere that a sample can be viewed? ========== Iain (The Tiger Telegraph Online) wrote: Have you got the link for k and o maps please? ========== Dear Listers, As far as I know, the Kain and Oliver maps showing parish boundaries are not available online, but you'll find several online examples of their maps, mostly on the GENUKI website, by performing a Google search using "Kain and Oliver Historic Parishes" as the search criterion. Kind regards, John -------------------- John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales E-mail: john@jlb2011.co.uk Website: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/

> To be honest, I haven't yet made much use of maps.familysearch.org> I've just been exploring it now and although I'm impressed, I think I > still> prefer Kain and Oliver's "electronic maps". <<Is there a website for these maps - or somewhere that a samplecan be viewed?>> I presume this is a reference to Roger Kain's and Richard Oliver's 'Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata' (an excellent resource, once you've got the hang of how to use it). This is available from the UK Data Archive, at http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/ . Search against SN 4348. Matt Tompkins

On Oct 21, 2012, at 6:15 PM, mlltompkins@aol.com wrote: > >> To be honest, I haven't yet made much use of maps.familysearch.org> I've just been exploring it now and although I'm impressed, I think I > still> prefer Kain and Oliver's "electronic maps". > > <<Is there a website for these maps - or somewhere that a samplecan be viewed?>> > > > I presume this is a reference to Roger Kain's and Richard Oliver's 'Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata' (an excellent resource, once you've got the hang of how to use it). > > This is available from the UK Data Archive, at http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/ . Search against SN 4348. > > Matt Tompkins > > ------------------------------- > List archives are at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WARWICK > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message