Maps, Geography, Deeds and Photography

Oddens's Bookmarks: the Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping has an extensive index of maps and map information on the web.

John Robertson has a collection of links to historical state and county maps for US states and a "Roll-your-own" Genealogical Atlas which has guidlines on finding, viewing and printing maps.

Other WWW resources include

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at The University of Texas at Austin.
The U.S. Gazetteer can give information about the location of place names, mostly in the US.
The British Columbia Archives and Records Service has a Cartographic Records Pilot Project.
Direct Line Software has an informative Land Record Reference and publicly accessible Research Directory and Deed Data Pool.
The City Gallery promotes the use of genealogical methods to research biographical details of 19th century photographers.
The Heritage Map Museum in Lititz, Pennsylvania has hundreds of original 16th to 19th century antique maps.
The business directory Bigbook can generate detailed online U.S. maps.
Your Past Connections reunites family memorabilia with their "families".
Genmaps Home Page - maps of old England, Scotland and Wales
Dead Fred, is a free online genealogy photo archive
Family History Collections: Collections of old photographs
RetouchPRO has much information and many tutorials and illustrations on digitally retouching photographs.

Last update 11 October 2004