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Happy Map-Makers Website

Genealogy searching aids for Baltimore (City and County), mainly for the Maryland Archives. Covers land, vital records, church records, newspapers, city directories and historic maps. Maps of colonial leases and land grants in Baltimore and Harford Counties, Maryland.

NYG&B - Google Earth for Genealogy, Part 1: Putting Your Ancestors on the Map

Plat Plotter

Converts deed 'metes-and-bounds' into a Plat of Survey for use with digital maps and GPS devices. This free, cloud-based application works with Google Maps to produce overlays for mapping programs like Google Earth, GPS devices, online printing services or shared with others.

Plotting Land With Google Earth Part 1 (YouTube)

By genealogyscrounge

Plotting Land With Google Earth Part 2 (YouTube)

By genealogyscrounge

Plotting Land with Google Earth Pro

By Lisa Louise Cooke

PLSS in Google Earth (PLSGE)

Metzger + Willard, Inc, a civil engineering firm has provided a free application that runs in Google Earth version 5.0 or later. (PLSGE) This application provides Township and Section lines as an overlay on Google Earth as well as an overlay for the Principal Meridians and Baselines. PLSGE has search capabilities for Townships and Sections.

Stress-driven: Five minutes from layout to landscape

A step-by-step tutorial for using the 'Image Overlay' tool to place a paper map on Google Earth.

StudentsOfDescent: Google Earth

Terms of use: Google Maps & Earth

From the blog by Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist.

The Historic County Border Project

The Historic County Borders Project digitised the borders of the historic counties of the UK and has made them freely available for public and commercial use. Download a file with the historic counties of England in GoogleEarth KMZ format.

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US Census Bureau - Cartographic Boundary Files - KML