Rootsfinder Tips
Fri, 14 Apr 2006
Old Maps
A wonderful resource to accompany your family history research is Old Maps. The UK has changed a lot since the 1950's and these maps (often pre-1900) offer researchers a chance to see how a town or village was laid out in earlier times. So many fields have been swallowed up by car parks, so many old houses have been knocked down, and so many tiny villages are now part of the suburbs.... not to mention the damage to buildings by bombs in WWII. category: [/tips] permanent link
A wonderful resource to accompany your family history research is Old Maps. The UK has changed a lot since the 1950's and these maps (often pre-1900) offer researchers a chance to see how a town or village was laid out in earlier times. So many fields have been swallowed up by car parks, so many old houses have been knocked down, and so many tiny villages are now part of the suburbs.... not to mention the damage to buildings by bombs in WWII. category: [/tips] permanent link
Welcome to my blog
I will use this as a chance to post any family history research tips and updates to the site. Many thanks to my husband who helped me set this blog up my site. It was harder than I thought it would be!
I will use this as a chance to post any family history research tips and updates to the site. Many thanks to my husband who helped me set this blog up my site. It was harder than I thought it would be!
The banner at the top of the page was made by me. The texture of old paper was scanned from the memoir written by Sophia Collins, and the letters are from an old map that I scanned. The magnifying glass was one of my early logos that I drew and I've now slotted it into the banner. I may change the banner as time goes on, just for fun. category: [/updates] permanent link
