FamilySearch Research Wiki

Dennis J Yancey

FamilySearch Research Wiki

It is a wonderful resource that can provide great resources for your area of research.

It can help you find helpful resources to sources both IN and OUT side of FamilySearch.

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Main_Page

FamilySearch is an incredible tool - a wonderful miracle of compiled resources

but the Research Wiki - reminds us that there are also tons of very useful and helpful resources OUTSIDE of FamilySearch.

Links to sites outside of FamilySearch can also be very helpful and useful to researchers. Dont limit your vision to only what is inside FamilySearch.

KathyBowman1

The 1851 Jurisdictional map of England does not work correctly on my computer at present, even though I used it extensively about 5 years ago. Perhaps this is because some of my settings have been changed for greater accessibility for poor vision -- or perhaps the map was changed without updated instructions given.

The instructions under "Map Types" say this today (29 August 2022):

"You can change the type of map by clicking different map view buttons at the top right of the base or default map. You can choose from the following:

• Map: Google Street Map (modern street map)
• Satellite: Google Satellite (arial view of place, including roads and places)
• Ordnance Survey: detailed historical map created in the 1800s (zoom in to see location of smaller places within parishes)
• EJ1851: default map displaying parish and county boundaries . . . "

There are NO "map view buttons" at the top RIGHT of the map. On the LEFT of the map are buttons that toggle between map and satellite, the first two choices from the list above. However, I want to see only the county of Surrey with the parish names and boundaries.

I have a printed map from County Kent that I thought I copied from this same place some years ago, zooming into the main parish I was interested in but showing the names of the surrounding parishes so that I could expand my searches.

If I am now looking in the wrong place, I would appreciate further instructions