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See the Harmsworth
Atlas and Gazetteer (circa 1908-1909) including Russian
Empire Maps and Gazetteer.
See also Using Maps and Gazetteers in
your Research, by Dave Obee
Please see the Map Background
file for details on the sources of these maps, scales, how
they were scanned, etc.
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. We came up with a map of the Polish
provinces of the
Russian Empire (i.e. the Russian partition of Poland) - see
the index below).
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 in most cases.
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.
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 (1882 - 12 maps -
2.3 Meg)
See also the Harmsworth
Atlas and Gazetteer (circa 1908-1909) from Russian Empire
Maps and Gazetteer (under construction).
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.
(except for Map # )
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:
G. Scandinavia (1 map - 0.173 MB)
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.