Mapping the travels of our ancestors

[1000xlch]

Great idea, but I suppose a big task.  I have a lot of ancestors from Scotland, Shropshire to Durham via Staffordshire and Yorkshire.  My partners lot come from Cornwall, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire.  We have migrated to East coast of US and Australia and NZ.  I'm sure there is something on the web.  I do know that there is a commercial CD with surname distribution for the 1881 census.  Tallack surname in Cornwall has been mapped on somebody's website which shows concentrations in various areas and what decade so you can see a movement and expansion.

John Rowley

[mc8]

  I'm sure there is something on the web. John Rowley

the genealogist does a uk mapping but its pay per view

[dennford]

            As an afterthought we have members in all corners of the globe - maybe we could do something like a world map showing the locations and numbers of Rootschat members, Im sure there must be some pretty remote, exotic and unlikely places, does anyone like the idea?
                                                     Denn

[loo]

I have been thinking of trying to do something similar.  My lot mostly just trotted about London and environs, with a couple of additions from Bristol, Hannover.  So I was just going to do a London map.
I really like the idea of printing on the transparencies.  Reminds me of a a book I had as a kid, with all the different biological systems of the body, one on each transparency;  you put them on top of each other to make a complete human.
Thanks for the warning about the copyright trawlers!

[Paul E]

Great map, Denn!

Paul

[mc8]

I have been thinking of trying to do something similar.  My lot mostly just trotted about London and environs, with a couple of additions from Bristol, Hannover.  So I was just going to do a London map.

I found the Stanford map useful as it has a street index and is good scale
http://www.motco.com/Map/81006/

[loo]

Yes, I agree with you;  i have referred to that map in the past, and it has lovely detail.  The limitation is that each frame covers a very small area, so it's harder to see links.

[Emmeline]

Dear All - I had been toying with this idea too - plotting the places that Gt.Gt.Grandpa went to as an Engine Driver - from Wigan to Rouen, France from there to Liverpool,  then Barnet in Middlesex followed by  Peterboro and finally Battersea !  I think I had some idea I might be able to work out which Railway Company he was with. Children were born in all these places - 10 in all - but I have still not been able to find his marriage certificate !

[mc8]

Yes, I agree with you;  i have referred to that map in the past, and it has lovely detail.  The limitation is that each frame covers a very small area, so it's harder to see links.

did you know you can purchase copies?
or stick them together