Genealogy Chat

Just thought i would share this tip with you. I always keep a road atlas near where im working, then when i find a match with a name /date, but are unsure of the area i look to see where it is in my atlas. Shaz

I have an AA atlas in the desk drawer ,comes in very useful, especially when trying to locate villages. Joyce

I agree also... I always have my route finder running when looking as it can clarify if the small villages are anywhere near where your searching for ..... Mhairi

Just picked up a large (A2) map showing U.k Counties.(£1.50, from a bargin book shop). I know its modern so some countises will have changed but its great for me as my geography is not that good. All my family and Hubbies seem to originate in the Shropshire, Staffordshire and Gloucstershire areas but all ended up in Yorkshire. Joan

I do the same. I wouldn't be without mine.

I admit to not having got round to buying an atlas. It's been on the To Do list since before Christmas (when someone on the site told me quite bluntly to 'buy a b***** map' when I asked where a place was - oops!). This weekend...definitely, don't want to get shouted at again! Lou

Hi Shaz I usually zoom off to the Multimap site, but what I could really do with is a big map of Yorkshire on the wall! Jeanette x

Jeanette With little pins in with the names of all your ancestors on them to show you where they're all hiding.......! Lou

lol Lou! I was entering a few ancestors on Ancestral Villages the other day and I hadn't really realised how much they had moved around until then - only a few miles round about. But it took me ages just to enter just 1 generation in the villages they had lived in. Jeanette x

Would not be without my very old A-Z of London bought at a boot sale for 10p - has lots of the old streets in. Also my Map book of England but better still a page from an atlas with all the counties of England on it, very helpful!!. Happy to forward a copy of this page, foolscap size, to anyone if they want to give me their email address. Irene

I use www*streetmap*co*uk [replace * with .] which you can search for London streets, other streets, or places and zoom in/out. I also have handy a Greater London atlas and a roadmap of England. Use them often. nell

Someone has just sent me the most marvellous A-Z Street Map of the area my lot lived. Although its modern, it also helpfully shows all the old area names and farmsteads - its been absolutely brilliant. For vaguer stuff I use a very old Road Atlas - no Motorways, which makes it easier to search somehow. Marjorie

Jeannette - what is Ancestral Villages?

If you have the time and space get a collection of old maps together you would be suprised how some differ from todays maps. apart from no motorways you can find villages that are now part of large city, filds were a town is to day or even towns/villages that no longer exist.