Sponsored in partnership with California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies.
Location: Zoom
Time: 7:00 PM ET/ 6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT/ 4:00 PM PT
Title: “How to Find an Image of Ancestral Eastern- or Central-European Towns on Antique Topographic Maps”
Speaker: Andrew Kapochunas, Secretary of New York Map Society, member of Lithuanian Cartographic Society, retired data and processing consultant
Summary: Andrew’s presentation will provide step-by-step directions anyone can follow for finding images of even the smallest villages and shtetls on incredibly detailed online 19th to early 20th century topographical maps created by government and military surveyors. His method will be compared to that recommended by the Library of Congress.
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