{"id":9029,"date":"2022-09-11T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=9029"},"modified":"2022-09-11T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:00:31","slug":"inside-the-guide-exploring-uk-historical-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/inside-the-guide-exploring-uk-historical-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Guide: Exploring UK Historical Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for all the right places to research your ancestors in the United Kingdom and Ireland? Check out the Goals for Maps and Gazetteers in The Family History Guide. These Goals are located in the following Country pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-england10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">England<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-scotland08.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scotland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-wales08.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wales<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-9-ireland09.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ireland<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the map resources you&#8217;ll find include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Rumsey.com<\/a> contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldmapsonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Old Maps Online<\/a> indexes over 400,000 maps. This is thanks to the archives and libraries open to the idea who have provided their online content.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archersoftware.co.uk\/genmap01.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GenMap UK<\/a> is a program for UK distribution mapping. You can create maps of historical or genealogical data relating to the British Isles using your own data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another interesting place for maps across the United Kingdom is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visionofbritain.org.uk\/maps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vision of Britain site<\/a>. It has a series of tabs for topographic maps, boundary maps, and land use maps, as well as instructions for using the online map library.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/x-eng-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/x-eng-map.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/x-eng-map-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/x-eng-map-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/x-eng-map-768x532.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for all the right places to research your ancestors in the United Kingdom and Ireland? Check out the Goals for Maps and Gazetteers in The Family History Guide. These Goals are located in the following Country pages: England Scotland Wales Ireland Some of the map resources you&#8217;ll find include David Rumsey.com contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[104,516],"class_list":["post-9029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-research","tag-maps","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9029"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9037,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions\/9037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}