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***** 10.0. GEOGRAPHY/MAP RESOURCES
*****
Latest Update: 18 August 1996(Links updated)
***** 10.0. GEOGRAPHY/MAP RESOURCES *****
keyword: FindMaps
Gazetteers (which are geographic indexes/locator books) for the Habsburg Empire are
microfilmed and available
through the LDS. Search under the Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, and Romania sections of
the Europe
Locality Catalogue.
The maps showing the Danube basin with German village names in italics which are
reproduced in John
Michels' book The Banat Germans is reportedly from a set of 12 maps published
in a book titled:
Donauschwaebisches Ortsnamenbuch by Isabelia Regeny and Anton Scherer
(1987, second edition)
possibly available from: Haus der Donauschwaben z.Hd. Herrn Jakob Dinges,
Goldmuehlstr., 30 71065
Sindelfingen, Germany.
Another important source of maps circa 1890: Scale: 1:200,000 request index of
"Generalkarte von
Mitteleuropa" Bundesamt fuer Eich und Vermessungswesen (Landesaufnahme)
Krotenhallergasse 3 1080 Vienna
Austria 1:100,000 scale maps are available from: National Archives Cartographic and
Architectural Branch
Washington, D.C. 20408 A series of maps for Yugoslavia was made in 1943 for the Army
Map Service Send
a copy of a modern map showing the location you are interested in to help the Archives staff
identify the
desired map.
1:200,000 scale maps of middle Europe, which include all of the Banat, area available (June,
1994 catalogue)
from Genealogy Unlimited, Inc. Call
1-801-763-7132 and
ask
for a Genealogical Supply
Catalogue.
The LDS has an excellent series of 1:75,000 maps of Austria-Hungary circa 1890 on
microfilm (microfilm
readers/copiers are generally available); by Oesterreich Militargeographisches Institut
1879-1928 LDS
microfilm number 1045395 (also available on a large series of microfiche). These maps are
also imported by Genealogy Unlimited
Check your library for the Historical Atlas of East Central Europe by Paul
Robert Magocsi,
University of Washington Press, 1993, 218 pages. ISBN #0-295-97445-1.
For on-line maps, see
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