5 Ways to Use Online Historical Maps for Genealogy

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Explorers first mapped North America half a millennium ago. Over the following 300 years, armies charted roads and rivers, forests and forts. Surveyors later partitioned large tracts and land offices gradually sectioned them into properties. Maps’ edges crawled westward—sometimes with imagined details—as the population grew and migrated. By the 19th century, maps showed more than View Website VIP Subscription

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