About Walking With Your
Ancestors
From locating an ancestor's homesite and
where records might be kept to determining which route and roads forebears took
when migrating from one area to another, maps are common tools in tracing
family history. This practical book expands the reader's awareness of how maps
and other geographic resources, such as atlases, gazetteers, and global
positioning systems, will help them find their elusive ancestors.
-Find
historic maps that will help them in their search
-Locate
obscure towns and villages
-Determine
shifting boundary changes that can affect their research
-Use maps and
other geographic tools to find cemeteries and ancestral homesites