3RD MILITARY SURVEY MAPS AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
This is a link I've revisited and posted on my sidebar. Click on an area and up comes a very enlarged map.
OK here is a hint. Let's say you hit on one of the small squares and you find the place you are looking for. Since these squares are not numbered the only way to identify the right square of the map again is to go to the bottom of the map and write down the ROMAN NUMERALS you see, along with maybe a description such as "I clicked to the left of the square that has the town KASSA."
Using modern map databases such as my favorite MAPQUEST first may help, because I noticed that some of them are programing in alternate names.
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Saturday, July 26, 2014
Saturday, March 10, 2012
WONDERFUL OLD MILITARY MAPS : A Monarchia III. katonai felmérése 3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary
A Monarchia III. katonai felmérése
3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary
http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm
A WONDERFUL site! You click on the area and up comes old maps. One of the things that was once impressed upon me, and I impress upon others, is that settlements tended to be no more than a day's walk and back, meaning about 5 miles, from each other. As a result, until the era of modern transportation by engine, many people lived in the same town and married their neighbors, or someone from that one day's walk and back to the next village, because it was simply too difficult to meet and get to know someone who lived much further. Of course there were information networks and arranged marriages that defy this reasoning but so far in my research I generally find people who married someone from a greater distance, had money and the resources for communication and transportation!
These are very useful when you're researching your family history and the names of some villages and towns are not coming up or when you are trying to locate military records. Give it a try!
UPDATED July 23, 2019 Please let me know if the link is not working. I've moved it from the post title to inside the post.
3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary
http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm
A WONDERFUL site! You click on the area and up comes old maps. One of the things that was once impressed upon me, and I impress upon others, is that settlements tended to be no more than a day's walk and back, meaning about 5 miles, from each other. As a result, until the era of modern transportation by engine, many people lived in the same town and married their neighbors, or someone from that one day's walk and back to the next village, because it was simply too difficult to meet and get to know someone who lived much further. Of course there were information networks and arranged marriages that defy this reasoning but so far in my research I generally find people who married someone from a greater distance, had money and the resources for communication and transportation!
These are very useful when you're researching your family history and the names of some villages and towns are not coming up or when you are trying to locate military records. Give it a try!
UPDATED July 23, 2019 Please let me know if the link is not working. I've moved it from the post title to inside the post.
