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[[Image:Map of Ireland.jpg|thumb|right|269x336px]]Maps are helpful in locating the places where your ancestor lived. They help you identify neighboring towns, parishes, and geographic features. They can help you locate parish churches. They can show the transportation routes that your ancestor could have used in moving. | ''[[Ireland]]'' | ||
=== Introduction === | |||
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Maps are helpful in locating the places where your ancestor lived. They help you identify neighboring towns, parishes, and geographic features. They can help you locate parish churches. They can show the transportation routes that your ancestor could have used in moving. | |||
Maps may be published separately or in bound collections called atlases. Maps may also be found in gazetteers, guidebooks, local histories, directories, and history texts. | Maps may be published separately or in bound collections called atlases. Maps may also be found in gazetteers, guidebooks, local histories, directories, and history texts. | ||
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This information will help you distinguish the place you are searching from other places of the same name. | This information will help you distinguish the place you are searching from other places of the same name. | ||
See [[Ireland Gazetteers]] for additional information on locating places. | See [[Ireland Gazetteers]] for additional information on locating places. | ||
=== Finding Maps and Atlases === | === Finding Maps and Atlases === | ||