- Preface
- Introduction
- First Steps
- Online Starting Points
- Using Online Sources
- Civil Registration
- Census
- Church Records
- Property, Taxation & the Law
- Occupations
- The Armed Forces
- Migration & Colonies
- Print Sources
- Archives & Libraries
- Surnames, Pedigrees & Families
- Geography
- History
- Photographs
- Discussion Forums
- Search Engines
- Publishing Your Family History Online
- The World of Family History
- Issues for on-line genealogists
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Geography
- [253] Cyndi's List: Maps & Geography
Gazetteers
Modern
- [253]
Gazetteer of British Place Names
- [253]
National Gazetteer of Wales
- [254] Archaeology UK: UK Placename Finder
- [254] Ordnance Survey
- [254]
Ordnance Survey: Place Names Gazetteer
Historical
- [254] A Vision of Britain through Time
- [255] A Vision of Britain: Descriptive gazetteer search
- [256] Genuki: Gazetteer
- [256] Genuki: Church Database
- [256] Genuki: Look for places in the 1891 census
- [257] Parish Finder
Scotland
- [257] Gazetteer for Scotland
- [258] Gazetteer for Scotland: ‘Any Word' search
- [258] Gazetteer of Scotland
- [258] Electric Scotland: Gazetteer of Scotland
Ireland
- [258] Irish Ancestors: place-name search
- [258] IreAtlas -
- [258] PRONI: Geographical Index of Northern Ireland
- [258] PRONI: List of Parishes
- [258] Placenames Database of Ireland
- [258] Wikipedia: Irish national grid reference system
- [259] Library Ireland: Topographical Dictionary of Ireland
- [259] Ordnance Survey of Ireland: Topographical Dictionary of Ireland
- [259] Irish Place Names database
Counties and towns
- [259] Genuki: British Isles Genealogy
Administrative geography
- [259] Genuki: Local Government Changes in the United Kingdom
- [259] Gazetteer of British Place Names
- [260] Gazetteer of British Place Names: Additional notes for historians and genealogists
- [260] British Counties, Parishes, etc. for Genealogists
- [260] Genuki: London Parishes & Boroughs
- [260] Genuki: Chapman County Codes
- [260] Colin Chapman: The Chapman County Code for British Isles Counties
Overseas
- [260] Cyndi's List: Maps & Geography: General Resources
- [260] Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
- [261] Wikipedia
- [261] Mailing lists
Modern maps
- [261] Ordnance Survey
- [261]
Ordnance Survey: Get-a-map - replaced by OS Maps
- [262] MAGIC
- [262] Streetmap
- [262] Bing Maps
- [263] Google Maps
- [263] OpenStreetMap
- [263] Genuki: How to find a present day house, street or place in the U.K.
- [264] Google Earth
- [264] Historical Aerial Photography
- [264] UK Aerial Photos
Historical maps
Ordnance Survey
- [264] A Vision of Britain: Historical Maps
- [264] British History Online: Historical geography - browse maps
- [264]
Edina: Digimap
- [264] National Library of Scotland: Ordnance Survey maps
- [265]
National Library of Scotland: Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile maps of England and Wales,
- [265] London Ancestor: Old London Maps
- [265] London Ancestor: Irish County Maps
- [265] Ordnance Survey Ireland
- [265] Ordnance Survey Ireland: Mapviewer
- [265] Ask About Ireland: Griffiths Valuation index
- [265] Old-maps
Scotland
- [265]
National Library of Scotland: Maps of Scotland
- [266] Charting the Nation
Ireland
- [267]
Poor Law map
- [267] Maps of Ireland
- [267] Perry-Castañeda Library: Town plan of Dublin, 1610
- [267] Irish Townland Maps
Counties and towns
- [267] Genmaps
- [267] Samuel Lewis's County Maps
- [267] John Speed
- [267] Cambridge University Library: John Speed
- [267] Cary's Traveller's Companion, 1790
- [268] Baedeker's Great Britain Handbook for Travelers
- [268] Mapseeker: Genealogy Map Resources
- [268] British Library: Images Online
- [268] British Library: Help for researchers
- [269] National Library of Wales: Digital Mirror: Maps
- [269] Old Hampshire Mapped
- [269] Old Sussex Mapped
- [269]
Pictures in Print
- [269] Lancashire County Council: Old Maps
- [269] Cheshire Archives: E-mapping Victorian Cheshire
London
- [269] Genmaps: London Parishes & Boroughs
- [270] MOTCO
- [270] MAPCO
- [270] Guildhall Library: Collage
- [270]
Lost London Streets
- [271]
GenDocs: Victorian London Street index
- [271] London Ancestor: Stow's Remarks on London
- [271] UCLA Department of Epidemiology: John Snow
- [271] LSE: Charles Booth
- [271] Peter Christian: London Maps Online
Parishes and administrative divisions
- [272] FamilySearch: English Jurisdictions 1851
- [273] A Vision of Britain: Maps
- [273] A Church Near You
- [273] Genuki: Family History And Genealogy Societies
- [273] Gazetteer of Scotland: Index of Counties
- [273]
Edina: New Statistical Accounts of Scotland
- [273]
New Statistical Accounts of Scotland: Parish Maps of Scotland
- [274] Irish Ancestors: Church of Ireland parishes
- [274] Irish Ancestors: Roman Catholic parishes
- [274] Leitrim-Roscommon: Map index page
Map collections
- [274] British Cartographic Society: Directory of UK Map Collections
- [274] British Cartographic Society: Map Curators Toolbox
- [274] National Archives: Looking for a map
- [274] National Archives: Maps: further research
- [274] British Library: Map Library Overview
- [274] National Library of Scotland: Maps
- [274] National Library of Wales: Maps
- [274] National Library of Ireland: Maps
Finding maps
- [274] Genuki: British Isles Genealogy
- [274] Map History
- [275] Map History: Europe
- [275] ABCgenealogy.com: Maps: Europe
- [275] Old Maps Online
Interactive mapping
- [275] MapYourAncestors
- [275]
Dick Eastman: MapYourAncestors - review
- [276] Kimberley Powell: Map Adventures with Google
- [276] Peter Christian: Interactive Mapping for Family Historians
This page was last revised by Peter Christian, December 09 2016.
Please report any errors or problems to tgi@spub.co.uk.
All material on these pages © 2012 Peter Christian.