(London Theatreland 1915). "The Westminster Press" have exploited me, for the Underground Railway Company, who bid you now come ...

One of the basic rules of genealogical research is that of recording place names as they were at the time an event occurred in an ancestor...

Map of Western Europe in 1815 Many genealogical researchers seem to lose track of the time element in their accumulation of names and da...

One of the sad commentaries on the research efforts of many in our genealogical community is a complete lack of awareness of the historic...

Gunter's chain photographed at Campus Martius Museum . The way real property (land) is measured seems arbitrary, and if you are lik...

Streetside view of the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey , a monument marking the site that served as the basis for the entir...

Elements and units of the US Public Land Survey System: A) townships, B) sections, C) aliquot parts. By Gretarsson (Own work) [GFDL (http...

English: Broadwater Farm: detail of the 1619 map of the Parish of Tottenham, Middlesex (now in the London Borough of Haringey) One of th...

Sanborn Insurance Map of Provo Utah, 1908 http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/sanborn-jp2/id/1975 My recently post on...

Areas with greatest proportion of reported Scotch-Irish ancestry One of the most ignored areas of genealogical research is the issue of ...