Genealogy sources

compiled by Joan Winearls, November 1997; revisions by Marcel Fortin
Last updated April 2016

Canadian reference sources

Gazetteers

• Place Names of Ontario
• Gazetteer of Canada

Bibliographies

• Catalogue of the National Map Collection
• Canadian fire insurance plans in Ontario collections
• Fire insurance plans in the National Map Collection
• County maps: landownership maps of Canada in the 19th century
• County atlases of Canada: a descriptive catalogue
• Mapping Upper Canada, 1780-1867: an annotated bibliography of manuscript and printed maps

Map sources

• Economic atlas of Ontario, plates 98, 99
• Ontario's history in maps
• A guide to data on nineteenth century Toronto
• Census districts in eastern Canada 1851-1891: a folio of base maps
• Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications [monochrome map series of Ontario] 1:100,000
• Sectional map [Western Canada] 1:190,800

Miscellaneous sources

• Inventory of primary and archival sources: Guelph and Wellington County, to 1940
• Land surveys of southern Ontario: an introduction and index to the field notebooks of the Ontario land surveyors,1784-1859
• A guide to Ontario land registry records
• Name and place index to Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of York...1878
• Directory Maps: Canada's 20th century 'county atlases' Canadian Genealogist vol. 3, no. 3 (1981), p. 140-156
• Maps in genealogical research Families vol. 16 no. 4 (1977), p.152-165
• County maps of the nineteenth century as historical documents: a new use Canadian Cartographer vol. 7 no. 1 (June 1970), 27-41

Foreign reference sources

Great Britain

• The comprehensive gazetteer of England and Wales
• Maps for family history: a guide to the records of the Tithe, Valuation Office, and National Farm Surveys of England and Wales, 1836-1943
• General alphabetical index to the townlands and towns, parishes and baronies of Ireland
• Gazetteer of the British Isles
• Maps for family and local history: a guide to the records of the Tithe, Valuation Office, and National Farm Surveys of England and Wales, 1836-1943
• A new genealogical atlas of Ireland
• Ordnance Survey of England and Wales 1:63,360
• Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1:63,360
• Ordnance Survey of Scotland 1:63,360
• The Phillimore atlas and index of parish registers
• Townland survey of the County of ...[Ireland] 1:10,560

Central & Eastern Europe

• Allegemeines geographisch-statistisches Lexikon aller Osterreichischen Staaten
• Atlas der Donaulander/Atlas of the Danubian countries
• Nordliches Ostpreussen...Ortsnamen-Verzeichnis und Karte, deutsch-russisch und deutsch-litauisch
• Shtetl finder gazetteer
• German towns in Slovakia & upper Hungary: a genealogical gazetteer
• A gazetteer of the world
  Reprint of the 1850-1856 publication
• Gemeindeverzeichnis fur Mittel- und Ostdeutschland und die fruheren deutschen Siedlungsgebiete im Ausland
  German place names in former Greater Germany and 1937-48 and east-central Europe. Places located by former administrative units e.g. Regierungsbezirk and Landkreis
• Geoname digital gazetteer
  A CD-ROM index to all the names listed in all the U.S. Office of Geography gazetteers issued for various countries (see below)
• Postal place names in Poland
  Many references to name changes and post office name changes
• Where once we walked: a guide to the Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust
• Where once we walked: a guide to the Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust (revised edition)
• Place-name changes, 1900-1991
  World name changes with particular reference to the Soviet Union, China and Africa; discusses types of changes that were made.
• Gazetteers by the United States Office of Geography
  Poland, USSR, West Germany, East Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria
• Russisches Geographisches Namenbuch
  In Russian and German
• Stieler's Hand-Atlas Namenverzeichnis (1925) and Index to Stieler's Hand-Atlas
• The Times Survey Atlas of the World (1922)
• World 1:500,000
  Topographical map
• Ubersichstkarte von Mitteleuropa 1:300,000
• Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa 1:200,000
  Best general series for coverage of south central and part of eastern Europe
• Europe 1:100,000
• Central Europe 1:250,000
• Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
  Covers south-central and eastern Europe and Balkans
• Karte des Deutschen Reiches 1:100,000
  Covers Greater Germany
• Mapa Polski, 1:500,000
• Poland 1:50,000
  Post WWII area of Poland
• Poland 1:100,000
• Russia 1:1,000,000
  Covers part of western Russia and eastern Europe but at a small scale
• Da geht unser Weg durch Kampf z. Siegl. [map]
• Administrativ-statistischer Atlas vom Preussischen Staate [map] : Neudruck mit einer Einführung und Erläuterungstexten zu den 22 Atlaskarten
• Karta Ukrainy [map] 
• Germany and its approaches with international boundaries as of Sept. 1, 1939... Austria and Czechoslovakia[map]
• Greater Germany administrative divisions 1 July 1944
• Molotschna Historical Atlas
• Atlas Ostliches Mitteleuropa 
  Historical administrative boundaries for south central eastern Europe
• Historical Atlas of East Central Europe
• Mapa Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej [map]
• Ukraine [map]
• Ubersichskarte des Russischen Kriegsschauplatzes.[map]
  WWI German map showing place-names in Eastern Europe