Journey Into the Past! Envision your ancestors' world--as your ancestors knew it--through hundreds of beautiful full-colour reproductions of useful eighteenth and nineteenth century maps. The maps illustrate the historical boundaries of each of the U.S. states as they progressed from territories to statehood and show the shifting of county boundaries and names within states over the years. Inside you'll find: Full-colour historical maps of the United States from each decade of the nineteenth century. Detailed, full-colour historical maps of all 50 U.S. states. Time lines of significant events in each state's history. Charming nineteenth-century panoramic maps of key cities. Special-interest maps, which provide intriguing peeks into American society from average family sizes to taxation per capita to regional industries. This book is perfect for family historians researching their American roots. The maps can help you: put research in geographical context; identify jurisdictions that likely hold your ancestors' records; note the potential locations of "missing" records; track and visualise migrations; and understand the evolution of national, state and county borders. The maps also provide great historical context for students, teachers, homes schooling parents and anyone with an interest in U.S. history. Bring American history to life with this ultimate collection of vintage maps.|This book will be the ultimate collection of vintage maps for genealogists with American ancestry. Readers will be able to envision their ancestors' world ? as their ancestors knew it ? through hundreds of beautiful full-colour reproductions of useful and influential maps from the 18th and 19th centuries. The maps cover more than a century of U.S. history and show the progression of territories to statehood and the shifting of county boundaries and names over the years within states. Readers will use the maps to understand the historical geographic context for their ancestors' lives, and identify historical places and where local courthouse records may be located. It will help guide their research in census records, birth, marriage and death records and other historical records.|This book is perfect for family historians researching their American roots. The maps can help you: put research in geographical context; identify jurisdictions that likely hold your ancestors' records; note the potential locations of "missing" records; track and visualise migrations; and understand the evolution of national and state borders.
