That is true, but if you find out where the place was in relation to places existing today you can get the co-ordinates via Bing or Google and feed them into your database for future reference.
Kind Regards, Wendy Howard -- Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> ----- Original Message ----- *From:* "CE Wood" <[email protected]> *To:* [email protected] *Sent:* 01/19/2010 1:04:29 PM +1300 *Subject:* [LegacyUG] GEO Updates Coming? > Using Google Maps is fine, as is Bing - but ONLY for now existent, large > towns. Many of the "older" places are not found by either Google or Bing. > The places John mentioned are in England, which has Ordnance Surveys. Those > are maps showing abbeys, battle sites, old castles, etc. Google and Bing > maps do not show what many historical genealogists are looking for. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
