Genealogy Maps, Geography, Deeds and Photography

• The U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) can be queried online. The USGS also has a fact sheet on how Maps Can Help You Trace Your Family Tree.
• 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.
• Jack Mount's Science Maps & Cartography Resources page

Other WWW resources include

• The Perry-Castaeda 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.