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Pinpointing the place where ancestors lived

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Trudy

Trudy Report 25 Aug 2006 11:38

Jeanette You could also try Multimap.com, this can be helpful as well. Looby

Liz

Liz Report 25 Aug 2006 10:11

Thanks Jeanette - the yell site is brilliant because you can drag the map into a new section thus getting a better idea of the closeness of other places.This is much more beneficial than having to navigate NSE or W. Liz

Salty

Salty Report 25 Aug 2006 08:46

Useful bit of info Jeanette. Rod

Unknown

Unknown Report 25 Aug 2006 08:41

While researching earlier generations of my family, many of whom come from places I`ve never heard of - particularly in Yorkshire - I have found two web sites very useful. ` Genuki. com` will give locations of most place names in the UK - even those which no longer exist.( listed in alphabetical order by county ) If the places do still exist you can look them up on another site called ` yell.com ` which will give you a detailed mapshowing exactly where they are. These used in conjunction with one another are helpful when using Family Search to backtrack from marriages to baptisms etc because it reveals the most likely ancestors. Jeanette