For Chris Brewer, leafing through the pages of history is his job and his passion.
The Exeter historian and publisher has finished a faithful reproduction of the “Official Historical Atlas Map of Tulare County,” originally printed in 1892.
The book is the latest, and perhaps most ambitious, imprint by Brewer’s Bear State Books.
The historic pages reprinted in […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. –As prospectors poured west in the 1840s to find riches during the California gold rush, they turned to a valuable map that depicted the gold fields in yellow and the best routes to get there in blue.
In another continent more than 75 years later, a tourism map replete with swastikas was used in […]
Google Earth has added 16 historic maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Once you’ve downloaded the program, click on “Featured Content.” “Rumsey Historical Maps” is currently the first item listed. Click on the little circle to the left of the map name you’re interested in - and then fly over the world as it […]
New Book Announcement:
This dazzling book takes us on a voyage of discovery around the world at the turn of the last millennium, when for the first time the world was in essence a unity. Islam bridged Eurasia, western Europe, and North Africa. Vikings, with links to Scandinavia and Russia, had just arrived in North America. […]
My friend, Arlene Eakle, just posted the following data. She’s been promising new good, information about FamilySearch and she did it. The following are just teasers. You will want to read her entire column.
FamilySearch (R) RetooledThe Family Search website is being re-designed and soon will accomodate several new research tools as well as more direct […]
Anyone compiling local history must go check out the new World Vital Records website. Paul Allen - known as being one of the founders of MyFamily.com, has just posted data that will revolutionize at least a portion of our local history research. The initial announcement was made on the fourth of July, but it took […]