Watch My Zoom: "How to Find any Village in Eastern and Central Europe on Antique Topographical Maps"

Detail, 1891 Rand McNally "Europe" map, showing locations of three towns to be searched. https://www.loc.gov/

I've been helping people for over a decade to find their ancestral Eastern European villages, focusing on the area of historical Lithuania. Either they just wanted to know where their village was, or they wanted an image of their town on an antique map for use on a village-specific website. But after recent Zoom presentations to JewishGen’s LitvakSIG group and the St. Louis Genealogical Society I've decided to explain “How to find any village in Eastern and Central Europe on antique topographical maps” to a wider audience. In this Zoom I detail the step-by-step process I myself follow as I search, for the first time, for images of three towns with which I have deep personal connections: one in today's Belarus, one in today's Ukraine, and one in Germany. And I compare my process with that recommended by the Library of Congress. I think you'll find mine a lot easier. Here's a link to that presentation: https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/3sUmWrFnwxQaB8ilMcoRPGz3Wr21Rxtt4L1GsE1OU8jRV3ESUqoQbb9ju3z7qGZl.gf-EwDw9mdcOVXdE?startTime=1771373501000

Passcode: $398Z=j?

Happy hunting!