Genealogy Chat

Thanks everyone. I'll see if the library here has one in the ref. section I can photocopy the relevant parts. And I'll try to find the Navigator one. Mostly in Oz you get Lonely Planet, or other 'tourist' ones. They onle really have the large towns. I'll try the double screen idea. Might ask the grandkids.

Hi Elizabeth, I have used the Phillimores Atlas at the local libery you are not allowed to take the book out but i photo copy the pages i want and the index at the back that tells you were the records are held for each parish district very useful to have at home when searching.Hope this info helps good luck.Anne.

just checked - my map book is the Navigator (Philip's) currently in the car LOL up to date ones are expensive, as Roy says, but you can often get ones a year or so out of date remaindered in places like The Works & other similar discount book shops

If googling is too messy when you're on another site, open a second window and do your googling in that - that leaves you free to look at your more detailed page as well. If you press Alt-Tab then you'll toggle between the two pages. To get your second screen up, press Ctrl-N. Kind regards, William

If you want a physical book open, Phillimore's Atlas has parish maps for each county, side by side with a county map. The third edition is quite pricy, but I'm sure you could get a second hand edition cheaper. (Only England and Wales, though) The Mormons are engaged in a mapping project, overlaying each sort of administrative boundary on a modern map, but I think they are some time away from letting us see it.

I use multimap.*com because you can zoom in and out plus search by address or just post code. for a map book i use the Navigator this gives the most detail and even shows tracks and farms by their name it cost about £20 Roy

Genuki is useful, if you know the rough area to start with. Some places have changed their names, or become assimilated into larger towns & villages. A lot of placenames you find on the censuses, especially when folks were born in rural areas but moved to a nearby town, are little more than farmsteads or settlements, not even villages. I am using a modern road atlas with most of britain at 1.5 miles to the inch. Surprising how many old place names have survived - possibly known locally, but aren't indexed on the likes of Multimap. (Having said that, I have found some places on multimap that aren't indexed) If I can't find a place I try a gazeteer like http://www.abcounties*co.uk/newgaz/index.htm (replace *) failing that, I google! County boundaries have changed quite a bit over the years. If the place is near the border but in the wrong county, I wouldn't rule it out until you have investigated. Some names of very small villages are extremely common - there are dozens of Thorpes in Yorkshire!

hiya, i always use multimap*com, to search for places, gives you a general idea, yes boundaries do move,bristol/glos etc.. maybe a site like google can offer help as to which boundaries, belonged where and when, i'm sure there was a site, which gave all mentioned above, but i'm blowed if i can remember which it was, sorry i cant be of more help Julie

I need a book of maps for the UK with some of the old place names. I'm getting better. I worked out Gloucestershire and Somerset are either mixed up on some records or the boundary moved. Plus I'm going from Hawkhead Lancs.?? to Bristol for marriage, back to Yorkshire, back to Bath. Googling is too messy when I'm on another site.