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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT MAPS
Do you stock reprints of old township maps that show property owners' names?
Most of the maps we reprint show larger land areas and do not usually show property owners names. We do, however, offer several 18th century-era maps which identify large landholders. These maps are identified in our map descriptions.
Occasionally, we are able to offer original antique township maps, mostly from the 19th century. In addition to being useful for research, these hand-coloured maps are highly decorative and make great gifts. These are one-of-a-kind items and can be found on our Original Antique Maps page.
Can you check your map of (locality) to see if it contains the name of my ancestral village?
We regret that we are unable to perform searches for specific places. Our maps are not indexed and searches take a substantial amount of time.
Your catalogue offers several maps from the same general area at different time periods. Can you search your map collection for a specific village and then send me just the map that shows that village?
We are unable to perform searches for specific places.
I know the exact latitude and longitude of the village my ancestors lived in. Will this information help me? Do your maps show latitude and longitude?
Knowing the exact latitude and longitude of a place is great for searching maps drawn after 1888 when latitude and longitude were internationally standardized; before that date, however, you need to know what the particular cartographer who drew the map chose to use as his prime meridian. It might have been London, Paris, an island in the North Atlantic or any other number of places. You will then need to mathematically re-calculate the longitude after determining the relationship between the cartographer's prime meridian and the prime meridian used today (The location of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England).
My great-great-grandfather came from [European country or region] in 1854. Your catalogue lists a map of the area from 1835. Will that map still be useful?
Skillful researchers are usually able to extract useful information from a map even when it is not the exact year the had hoped to find. Bear in mind that map-making in the 18th and 19th century was a very expensive undertaking; maps were often used for many decades without being updated. In many cases, some areas went without re-mapping for nearly a century. Some rural parts of Europe were not mapped in great detail until the end of the 19th century.