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FEEFHS MAP ROOM
- Background and MAP INDEX -
© copyright 2003 by FEEFHS; all rights
reserved
(Pommern link repaired)
All 57 Maps are loaded and all links are in good working
order
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Please see the Map Background
file for details
on the sources of these maps, scales, how they were scanned, etc.
FEEFHS is
indebted to member Ted
Gostin,
a Professional Genealogist and map dealer for the primary part of
thiis collection. He does
not sell any of these maps. But Ted has an excellent
collection of city and town plans
for
sale.
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BACKGROUND:
1. The FEEFHS East European Map Room has a 51 map collection from
the
Comprehensive Atlas and Geography of the World (published
by Blackie and
Sons in 1882 in Edinburgh, Scotland) cover almost all of central
and eastern Europe,
including all of the German Empire and the Russian Empire. This
includes European Russia
(east to the Urals) and trans-Ural Asian Russia (Siberia and the
Pacific). A map of
Switzerland is not planned since a detailed road map is available
for Switzerland from any
AAA (American Auto Club) office in America.
2. Poland: One map is posted. We are still actively
looking for a really good
map of 19th century Central Poland. Poland did not exist as a
nation for about 126 years
prior to the end of World War I. However the Austrian, German
and Russian partitions of
Poland are shown as parts of their respective Empires on the maps
in this Map Rooom. Ted
Gostin has come up with a map of the Polish provinces of the
Russian Empire (i.e. the
Russian partition of Poland) - see the index below). Because
of technical reasons, it
is not feasable to present such a map from the Blackie and Sons
atlas.
3. Russia: The European part of the Russian Empire of
1882 is now posted in
ten maps. Asian Russia is represented by seven maps.
Four features are significant in each map of the Blackie and
Sons
collection:
- All of these maps show 19th century boundaries between
countries and
provinces (which some other maps do not). The divisions of
the Austro-Hungarian
and German Empires are clearly shown, as are the Russian
guberniyas.
- They provide a good balance between having enough
detail and allowing
for small enough file sizes of relevant geographical divisions to
permit reasonable loading
times.
- These maps were published in English, making the place
names familiar
versions that our less experienced genealogy record searchers are
used to.
- A level of consistancy exists with all these maps from
one source, that is
convenient and useful in working with areas covered by adjacent
maps. In other words they
seem to fit together well, like matching pieces of a jigsaw
puzzle.
We are indebted to FEEFHS member Ted Gostin, a Professional
Genealogist and Map
Dealer for making these maps available to the FEEFHS Map Room.
While he DOES NOT
SELL COPIES OF THESE MAPS, Ted sells many city and town plan
reproductions of
high quality. Please also see his listing in the Professional
Genealogists database.
4. Hutterite Collection A collection of six excellent 1994
maps showings 16th
and 17th century Europen place names of importance to Hutterite
record searchers have been
posted with the permission of the Plough Publishing House of the
Hutterian Foundation. The
come from pages 816-821 of The Chronicle of the Hutterian
Brethren. A
Gazetteer is being created for each map, since none exists in
that book.
We welcome your suggestions on how to make this map room even
more user friendly.
A.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Eight maps, all from the same
1882 atlas - 1.4 MB
- at a scale of 1:2,700,000 or 1 inch = approximately 42
miles)
B.
German Empire - East (7 maps - 1.29 MB - at a scale of
1:1,800,000 or 1 inch =
approximately 28 miles)
All are from the same 1882
atlas
C.
German Empire - West (12 maps - 2.4 Megs - at a scale of
1:1,800,000 or 1 inch =
approximately 28 miles) All are from the same 1882
atlas.
D.
Balkans - (7 maps - 1.23MB - at a scale of
1:3,200,000 or 1 inch = approximately 50 miles)
All
are from the same
1882 atlas
E.
Russian Empire - European Russia (12 maps -
2.3 Meg) The first eleven maps are from an 1882 Blackie
and Sons atlas at a
scale of
1:6,100,000 or 1 inch = approximately 96 miles.
Only the 12th map, a 1902 Polish map from the Century
Dictionary and
Cycloepia, is from a different atlas, and at a scale of
1:5,00,000 or 1 centimeter
(cm) = approximately 50 kilometers (km)
F. Asian
Russian Empire - Siberia and the Russian
Far East (7 maps - 1.5 Megs)
Scale: The Trans-Ural (Asian) Russian Maps of Siberia and
the Russian Far
East are at a scale of 1:12,672,000 or 1 inch = about 200 miles.
It is quite reasonable,
considering the small number of towns and cities and the great
distances between them.
These CA&GW maps cover the Guberniyas streching from the Ural
Mountains which are
considered the geographic boundary between Europe and Asia:
Note:
This map
does truncate some of the southern Asian Russian CIS Countries
and provinces such as
Turkestan. It is a limitation of the atlas it came from, not our
scanner.
Southwest
Siberia - Tobolsk Guberniya - 192K -
South
Central Siberia - Tomsk, Yeniseisk,
Irkutsk -
277K -
Southern
Far East - Southern Maritime Provinces,
Sakhalin -230K -
Northern
Siberia 1 - Northern Yenisesk
Guberniya -
178K -
Northern
Siberia 2 - Northern Yakutsk Oblast -
225K -
Northern
Far East - Northern Maritime Provinces,
Kamchatka
- 189K -
G. Scandinavia (1 map - 0.173 MB)
Switzerland: This is part of the geographic area dealt
with by FEEFHS. Many
excellent travel, auto and tour maps are available thru the AAA
(American Automobile
Association), thus this 1882 map has not been scanned.
H. Hutterite Map Collection and Gazetteer
This collection of six maps covers 16th century Europe, South
Tirol and 16th/17th century
Moravia, Slovakia, Hungary, Transylvania and parts of the
Ukraine. Map scales vary from
10 to 23 to 94 miles per inch.
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