Some Major Online Map Links (This is always changing, usually for the better)

(FHC Portal) Historic Map Works Library Edition) – These are static historical maps on individual countries from around the world. You can choose by country and then time period.

http://www.clockwk.com/centennia.html - This is a map-based guide to the history of Europe and the Middle East from the beginning of the 11^th century to the present. It displays over 9,000 animated maps, representing the border changes.

http://geonames.usgs.gov - Geographic Names Information System, they have a) Topographical Maps, b) Aerial Photographs, and c) Country-wide maps. Search by many different kinds of features.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/maps/ - United States Maps, State and County Maps , and Indian Land Cessions to the US treaty Maps.

http://www.hamrick.com/names/ - This mapping resource displays the distribution of surnames for the years 1850, 1880, 1920, and 1990. If you have lost track of your ancestor between 1850-1880, use this site to determine other possibilities. Mostly helpful for less common surnames.

http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Surnames.aspx - Surname distribution for Great Bri tain for 1881 and 1998.

http://gens.labo.net/en/cognomi/genera.html - Surname distribution for Italy

http://www.mapquest.com/ - Mapping software for travel by car.

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus http://maps.google.com/ - Zoom in or out of maps from around the world.

http://www.maps.com A store for buying maps and some fun map games.

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus - Provides statistical details about all census years.

http://sanborn.umi.com More than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Available to authorized users at subscribing institutions. Run by Proquest.

http://getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html This is the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names a database of locations throughout the world.

http://dynastree.com/maps/ More US surname distribution maps.

http://wwwlivegenmi.com/1895 - Maps of all US States and counties in the United States in 1895

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html - The Library of Congress Map Collections including some aerial maps.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps - The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, an excellent collection of maps worldwide.

Historical topographic maps for various locations can be found at the following sites:

California : www.sdc.ucsb.edu/holdings/caltopo.html

San Francisco : http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/histopo/#

Los Angeles County : http://130.166.124.2/latopoh.htm

Monterey Bay : www.lib.berkley.edu/EART/CA/monterey/indx.html

Alabama : http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/other-sites/Alabama.html

Eastern & Mid-Atlantic States: http://historical.mytopo.com/historic.cfm

Gulf Coast : A collection of 300 USGS historical topo maps images of the US Gulf Coast scanned following Hurricane Katrina: ftp://mcmcftp.er.usgs.gov/Katrina/508dpi

Nevada and its border states : http:www.delamare.unr.edu/maps/digitalcollections/nvmaps/histopo.html">http:www.delamare.unr.edu/maps/digitalcollections/nvmaps/histopo.html

North Carolina : www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis/historictopos.html

USGS Geologic Atlas Folio Series: www.delamare.unr.edu/maps/digitalcollections/nvmaps/histegeo.html