Geography

East Meon Place name origins…

Some easy steps to checking out the origins of placenames and how we plan to map them on existing online and modern maps… from the Doomsday book onwards….start your own etymological study related to your family history map and family names….

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps New Hampshire

A super mapping resource from Dartmouth Library is the digital map project of the Sanborn fire insurance maps for many towns in New Hampshire. If you have any family history connections to New Hampshire then these maps are a real treat To explore other intriguing snippets and see how they can be used to explore…

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Mapping demo

This is just a taster of some further projects and initiatives we have in hand so that you can get the best from old maps overlayed and related to modern online maps, watch for a series of posts on this

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