Discover Sanborn Fire Insurance maps for genealogy with Julie Stoner of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. Learn search strategies, how to download the Sanborn maps for free and hidden online resources!
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0:00 Introduction
00:47 What are Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps?
02:41 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Collection
04:21 Sanborn Map Resolution
05:27 Fire Insurance Map Research Guide at the Library of Congress
06:20 How to Find Sanborn Maps
08:37 Why are there multiple dates on Sanborn maps?
09:24 Downloading Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
10:18 What do colors and symbols mean on Sanborn maps?
12:40 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Search Strategies
14:00 Searching for counties and regions in Sanborn maps
16:14 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Index
17:36 Sanborn Map GIS Project
21:27 Accessing Offline Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
24:20 Growth of the Sanborn Map Collection
25:20 Final Thoughts on Sanborn Maps
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You’ll find your family’s history at the intersection of location and timeframe. Maps are the ideal tool for the location side of the intersection. But not just any maps will do. The ideal map would include not just include their street but also a drawing of their house! And that’s what Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps have to offer. We’ll be entering the world of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps with Julie Stoner of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. We discuss the best search strategies, how to download the Sanborn maps for free, and hidden online resources to help you interpret them. If your relatives lived in the United States, Canada or Mexico this video is for you.
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I love maps and Sanborn maps are my favorite. I share with my local genealogy/history group the way our town changed through the years. Street names and numbering systems are shown. When the buildings were built and changed. I take local news from the early days and map where it was. Thank you for making these available
Wonderfully informative! Thanks
Wow! No idea this existed, even though I've checked out LoC many times. Thanks so much for presenting this & for Ms Stoner!
Wishlist item: Google creates a 3D version of the maps that we can explore and "walk around" like our ancestors did. (Using photo overlaps to give you ideas of how the buildings might look.)