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-Maps are an important source for finding the place where your ancestors lived. Maps can help you find places, parishes, churches, geographical features, transportation routes, and proximity to other towns.
+=== Overview ===
-Maps may be published individually or in bound collections called atlases. Maps may also be included in gazetteers, guidebooks, local histories, and history texts.
+Maps are an important source for finding the place where your ancestors lived. Maps can help you find places, parishes, churches, geographical features, transportation routes, and proximity to other towns.  Maps may be published individually or in bound collections called atlases. Maps may also be included in gazetteers, guidebooks, local histories, and history texts.
 Different types of maps can help you in different ways. Historical maps describe the growth and development of countries. They show boundaries, migration routes, settlement patterns, military campaigns, and other historical information. Road maps provide detailed information about Sweden's road systems. Survey maps show townships in great detail. City and street maps are extremely helpful when researching in large cities, such as Stockholm and Göteborg.
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 Some helpful books of maps at the Family History Library are:
 ''Genealogical Guidebook and Atlas of Sweden'': Thomsen, Finn A., 1981 (FHL book '''948.5 E7''') has parish outline maps
 ''KAK bilatlas (Maps of Sweden)''. Stockholm, Sweden: Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalts Förlag, 1975. (FHL book '''948.5''' '''E3k'''.)