Rootsfinder Tips
Mon, 17 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
