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Master Plans Don't let geographic mysteries foil your genealogical plot. Locate your family faster with these nine must-have maps.
When you're searching for the places your ancestors lived and traveled, you might feel as though you're stuck in an episode of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" Every time you think you've caught up with your itchy-footed forebears, they somehow manage to disappear faster than the cartoon queen of crime.
Still, you don't need to hire the ACME detective agency to accomplish your genealogical mission. You have a more potent tool at your disposal: maps. Both modern and historical cartography can assist you with more than simply pinpointing the locations of your progenitors' births, deaths and everything in between. Maps also can help direct you to records, determine paths of migration, visualize the land your ancestors trod and make sense of the family data you've already discovered. So let's look at nine key types of maps every genealogist should use—and how to take advantage of the clues they contain.
To learn about these 9 must-have maps for family history, see the December 2005 Family Tree Magazine.
By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
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