The genealogy website Familylink is teaming up with the Historic Map Works website in order to provide interested genealogists with the largest historical map collection available. Together, this will give genealogists access to more than two million images.
Familylink lets you browse through genealogy records by state, or by country. They have more than 3.6 billion records, one billion newspaper articles, and over twenty five million Yearbook photos. There is an easy to use family tree building interface that can be accessed through the Familylink website. It is a great genealogy website to use.
Members can browse through 13,000 databases. They can also see new content that is added every week that cannot be found anyplace else on the web. Members also can get premium support by telephone, which is toll-free. Do ads annoy you? Members can use this website “ad-free”. If this sounds interesting to you, there is a three day free trial membership.
Historic Map Works has 285, 872 maps available right now. This is 46.39% of their entire collection. (Eventually, they will have all 616,196 total maps from their collection available through the website). If you want to view the entire collection, you can browse through their Historic Earth system. There is also an iPhone ap available. You can search for a specific address, and get information about it.
Together, this will allow the users of Familylink to be able to access several hundred million family names, and to see how those names are attached to residences and businesses. Genealogists will now have a much easier time finding images of their ancestor’s homes and properties. A nice feature of this collection is a unique ability overlap these maps with google maps, (or other current maps), in order to see exactly where your ancestors lived. If you have been trying to collect photos of the places your ancestors used to live, or work, the combination of these websites might be a great place for you to start looking.
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