Genealogy Chat

Streetmap or Multimap are good. Alternatively, if your system is robust enough to instal Google Earth you can zoom in and out and get a real feel for the relative locations.

Well Horatia, we swear a lot in these parts too (well, you know what us Norfolk Dumplings are like, call a spade a ************** shovel -)- to be honest I didnt even take in the word until people commented on it!

Two very useful sites for maps. http://users.bathspa.ac(.)uk/greenwood/home(.)html http://archivemaps(.)com/mapco/lewis/lewis(.)htm Remove ( ) Jennifer

London places are on www.streetmap*co.uk - or you can always google. I would suggest you buy an A-Z of London though - they MUST sell them in Australia for the tourist trade. They come in lots of formats - hardback, paperback, spiral bound and cover inner London, Greater London etc. A-Z will also have administrative boundaries which is useful. You will soon get to know your way about. Since doing my family tree, my geography has improved amazingly! nell

My comments about recognising different cultures doesn't seem to have been appreciated. ;-) Try buying an A-Z of London from Amazon Lucille. If you want to know where any London places are then you can always ask on here. Ok Cobber? Cheers, Horatia

Oh good - no swear words in the title now - thank you.

If you google Southampton, the first hit is a map! It's on the south coast above the Isle of Wight. There's no need to swear if you want to ask a question. Janice

www.streetmap*co.uk is very helpful to me - you can zoom in or out and look for places, roads or London streets. I am sure there's a bookshop somewhere in Australia or on the net where you could buy a British Isles atlas for a small amount.

Southampton isnt in London Im afraid, its in Hampshire. Lambeth and Battersea are fairly close to each other, south of the river Thames in London. We tend to think of places as south of the thames, Lambeth, Rotherhithe, Camberwell, Bermondsey, Greenwich Deptford etc. On old census these may be shown as Surrey or Kent. OR North of the river are the old Middlesex and city areas and the east end. If you have a registration district you can google for the Genuki site which lists all the areas included. Im sure if you googled you would find a decent map.It would be very easy to find one. To be honest, this is very easy, readily available info; you need to get yourself more organised if you then intend to go on to sourcing really difficult stuff.

Two things 1) Would you please remove the swear word from your message title? 2) Use the internet - google and multimap(.)co(.)uk to find places. Remove the () from the url.

Hi, Southampton is about 2 hours perhaps or maybe a bit further from London and that's on the motorways. It's on the coast Lambeth and Battersea are very close. Linda

I'm in AUSTRALIA. My parents emigrated in 1950. In doing my family tree I've had wonderful help from many GR members..THANKYOU. However my big issue at the moment is where are these places... I have no idea if Southhampton is very close to London (actually I'm sure it's in London) but you get the idea... Where is Lambeth in relation to Battersea etc... I look at the huge lists of birthplaces and have no idea if they're in the north or the south or England AT ALL!! CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET A COPY OF A MAP SHOWING THE LONDON AREA??? Many thanks in anticipation of a reply. :) Lucy Blue Mountains New South Wales AUSTRALIA