1. GOOGLE MAPS
Place names may have evolved over time, locations may have been developed and road layouts changed since your ancestor’s time, but nonetheless Google Maps makes for a very comprehensive useful starting point when learning about the whereabouts of a new place that you have come across in your family history searches. It’s handy too for planning trips.
2. NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND
Find more than quarter of a million maps to search, zoom and download on the National Records of Scotland website, which includes coverage across the British Isles.
Notable collections: The Ordnance Survey maps (https://maps.nls.uk/os/) are invaluable for family and local history research. Spanning the 1840s to the 1960s, often in extraordinary detail. For instance explore the beautifully informative 1:500 town plans for England: https://maps.nls.uk/os/townplansengland/towns.html#
