We Love Maps!

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Comment by Leanne Mickels Elliott on July 17, 2010 at 8:16pm

One of my favorite map sites is the Newberry collection. One day at the Henderson nevada library we spent one afternoon googlingmaps.com and looking up the area in the countries our genealogy members families came from. Give me a map and I can take a trip without ever leaving my house. Maybe that's why I'm postcardless.

Comment by Randy C on September 2, 2009 at 10:41am

Thank you Linda that web site works great, of course, I did blow my morning looking at them.

Comment by Tammy Mellard Wheeler on September 1, 2009 at 10:05pm

Thank you for your help. The maps were very helpful.

Comment by Linda Sue Hollingsworth Robbins on August 27, 2009 at 7:30pm

To Tammy Mellard Wheeler and others who are interested.
To find cemetery maps, go to:
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/ USGS Board on Geographic Names
Go to: Search Domestic Names
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=116:1:2972239826708558::NO::P1_COUNTY,P1_COUNTY_ALONG:n%2C
Type in: State, County, and Feature Class: Cemetery
That should bring up all the identified cemeteries in that county. Click on one.
This brings you to the detailed description of that cemetery. Look to the right. Click on whatever mapping service you prefer. I like MapQuest because I can see the Street Map and the Aerial Map, plus zoom in to get better directions. I'm sure all choices are good in many different ways.

Comment by Brian DeGraaf on August 13, 2009 at 4:46pm

I'd like to invite all We Love Maps! members to the new Twitter Twibe for geotagging (Wikipedia aritcle) . Just follow the link to: http://www.twibes.com/group/geotag

Comment by Marilyn Kathryn Jones McMahon on July 31, 2009 at 1:03pm

I am a mapoholic!!! I don't know how anyone can do genealogy without maps. My dad taught me how to read - and fold - a road map before I ever went to school.