Urban Research Using Maps From Ancestry.com Wiki A solid
knowledge of the city’s layout as it existed in an ancestor’s
time is also important. Carol Mehr Schiffmen discusses and
illustrates various types of maps and other geographic sources
useful for urban research in her chapter, “Geographic Tools:
Maps, Atlases, and Gazetteers,” in Printed Sources: A Guide to
Published Genealogical Records. Jonathan Sheppard Books (P.O.
Box 2020, Plaza Station, Albany, NY 12220) offers a packet of
maps reproduced from Fannin’s Atlas of 1853, which includes maps
for the cities of Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Charleston,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, and
Washington, D.C. Write to the company for prices. Many American
city maps are described and can be viewed and downloaded from
the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress (“Cities
and Towns”). Paper copies are available for purchase from the
library’s photoduplication section. Among the map