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 === Land Ownership Maps  ===
-*Government or commercial agencies have created numerous maps showing the names of land owners in an area. These are often called “cadastral” maps. They sometimes include other helpful details such as churches, cemeteries, and roads. An inventory of many of the land ownership maps can be found at the ''Land Ownership Maps: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century United States County Maps in the Library of Congress'' <ref>Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division. ''Land Ownership Maps: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century United States County Maps in the Library of Congress''. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1967. (FHL book 973 A3Loc; fiche 6048262.) </ref>and in ''Land Ownership Maps''<ref>Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division. ''Land Ownership Maps''. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983. (On 2,010 FHL fiche starting with 6079238.)</ref>
+Government or commercial agencies have created numerous maps showing the names of land owners in an area. These are often called “cadastral” maps. They sometimes include other helpful details such as churches, cemeteries, and roads.
+*An inventory of many of the land ownership maps can be found at the ''Land Ownership Maps: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century United States County Maps in the Library of Congress'' <ref>Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division. ''Land Ownership Maps: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century United States County Maps in the Library of Congress''. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1967. (FHL book 973 A3Loc; fiche 6048262.) </ref>and in ''Land Ownership Maps''<ref>Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division. ''Land Ownership Maps''. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983. (On 2,010 FHL fiche starting with 6079238.)</ref>
 *For more information about land ownership, see [[Portal:United States Land and Property|Land and Property]].
 *Pennsylvania:&nbsp; Many free, downloadable 19-century PA wall maps and atlases showing landowners have been posted by [http://ancestortracks.com Ancestor Tracks]
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 ==== Boundary Changes  ====
 *[http://www.goldbug.com/store/animap3.html AniMap and SiteFinder]&nbsp;are two mapping products integrated on CD-ROM which allow users to plot a town and draw county borders around it for any year.&nbsp;However, AniMap's&nbsp;historical county border maps are also available online at [http://www.familyhistory101.com/map_county.html FamilyHistory101.com]. [http://www.goldbug.com/map/sitefinder.html Sitefinder Online] allows users to plot a town (even an extinct town) and show it on Google Maps.
 *An [http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.html animated map] of the boundaries of the United States and the Several States, shows the states and territories as they formed. A [http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.gif settlement map] is also available.
 *Maps of county boundaries as they exist today and as they existed in each census year through 1920 are shown in&nbsp;''Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 ''by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide. <ref>Thorndale, William, and William Dollarhide. ''Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920''. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987. (FHL book 973 X2th.)</ref> This source also includes helpful information about the availability of census records.
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 *The published states of Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania are found in the ''Atlas of Historical County Boundaries'' <ref>Long, John H., editor. [State] ''Atlas of Historical County Boundaries''. New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996-. </ref>The Family History Library has this work, but each volume is cataloged separately.
 Also see the [[United States Historical Geography|Historical Geography]] page for further help on tracing the histories of counties and their boundaries.
 ==== County Boundaries  ====