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function DbInfoMiniDescription() { document.write('This database contains approximately 1,200 U.S. county land ownership atlases from the Library of Congress’ Geography and Maps division, covering the approximate years 1864-1918. Some photos of county officers, land owners, and buildings or homes are also included.'); }
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function DbInfoDescription() { document.write('<p>Land ownership maps are portrayals of land purchased, granted, or inherited. They range in complexity from rough outlines of the boundaries of one tract of land to detailed county atlases showing every landowner at the time of compilation.</p><p>This database contains approximately 2,000 U.S. county land ownership atlases from the Library of Congress’ Geography and Maps division, covering the approximate years 1864-1918. Some photos of county officers, land owners, and buildings or homes are also included. Due to the quality of the microfilm on which these maps and photos were originally located, some of the images may not appear very clear.</p><p><b>Why Use County Land Owner Atlases:</b></p><p>These maps are valuable to genealogists because they often contain the names of landowners, they predate topographic maps, and they show important historical township and county boundaries.</p><p><b>More About Count Land Ownership Atlases:</p></b><p>While city atlases served a specialized clientele, their rural counterparts, known as county landownership atlases, were a commercial enterprise promoted by subscription campaigns and directed to a wider audience. Based on the pre-Civil War production of wall-sized, single-sheet county landownership maps, atlases showing landownership developed into a popular atlas format starting in the 1860s in the northeastern United States, and expanding into the Midwestern states by the 1870s and 1880s. These commercially published atlases contain cadastral or landownership maps for the individual townships within a county. In addition, they often include county and township histories, personal and family biographies and portraits, and views of important buildings, residences, farms, or prized livestock. (Library of Congress. <i>Geography and Maps: An Illustrated Guide</i>. http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/guide/gmilltoc.html.)<p>Some of the above information was taken from <I>Chapter 3: Geographic Tools: Maps, Atlases, and Gazetteers, Printed Sources: A Guide to Published Genealogical Records</I> by Carol Mehr Schiffman; edited by Kory L. Meyerink (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1998).</p>'); }
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function DbInfoSourceInfo() { document.write('<DIV class="p_sourceTxtDiv">Ancestry.com. <i>U.S. County Land Ownership Atlases, c. 1864-1918</i> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Various publishers of County Land Ownership Atlases. Microfilmed by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.</DIV>'); }
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