Finding Historical Jurisdictions

Now that you have your town and county as they exist today, you need to find them as they existed historically. There are several sources for this process:

  1. The Handy Book for Genealogists
  2. The Map Guide to the U. S. Census
  3. Ancestry's Red Book
  4. AniMap - A computer program for animated mapping.
  5. Legacy - A computer program with a locality finding aid is good for U.S.A.


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