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.
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