British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa

Gazetteers and Directories Weblinks
By Lesley Anderson

www.cyndislist.com/maps.htm  - Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers
www.genuki.org.uk/big/Gazetteers.html
Google – “Placename, Gazetteer”

LAC - Wellington Street
Directories: www.collectionscanada.ca/canadiandirectories/index-e.html

Other Directory Projects

www.collectionscanada.ca/canadiandirectories/022009-160-e.html
Olive Tree: (you have to scroll down the page to get to the links!!) http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/dir.shtml
Digitized County Atlases -  - *shows land digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/default.htm

Other Digitization Projects

Historical DirectoriesEngland: http://www.historicaldirectories.org/
Virtual Reference Library – www.virtualreferencelibrary.ca
Britain Archivist - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Voter's Lists, Directories, Gazetteers forLanark County Ontario
–Dates vary from 1846-1940.
www.globalgenealogy.com/LCGS/docs/LCGSDOCV.HTM

TRY:
a GOOGLE search for your county name and either directory or atlas (i.e. “Lanark Atlas”)
Local GENWEB’s tend to have a link to atlas/directory information