Many archival and library collections are now preserving, digitizing, and providing access to significant primary historical resources.

Since non-profit sites do not have the advertising or public relations budgets available to commercial sites, researchers are often unaware of them.


Maps & Gazeteers

A Vision of Britain    Maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions. Fully searchable database, very useful for located detailed information on specific places.http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp

Includes (among others) full text of three 19th century descriptive gazetteers, a total of over 90,000 entries in these three:

  • John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales (1872)
  • Frances Groome's The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1885)
  • John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
  MAPCO's aim is to provide genealogists, students and historians with free access to high quality scans of rare and beautiful antique maps and views. The site displays a variety of highly collectable 18th and 19th century maps and plans of London and the British Isles, and also 19th century maps and engravings relating to Australia.  http://archivemaps.com/mapco/Genmaps Old maps of England, Wales, and Scotland. These are not as slick and fast loading as the commercial sites above, but there are some maps here not available elsewhere. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/

Greenwood's map of London, 1827 scaled at eight inches to the mile, covers London and surroundings and stretches out to Earls Court in the West, to the River Lea and Greenwich in the East, Highgate to the North and to the South, Camberwell.





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