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And #LocalHistoryHour is off! Starting us off is @emmadown22 telling us about the fab sources at @UKNatArchives in series MAF 73

These aren't digitised and you can consult a volume of index sheets to help you with your search when viewing these in person

So why use maps? Great to help you find the farm if you don't know the name of the farm or parish, for example. They are also a useful comparison of how areas have changed over time

There are also forms that accompany the surveys and can also be consulted at @UkNatArchives. In the slide you can see the type of information that can be found within these

These are what the forms look like

Other info address of farmers, farm owners when different to the farmer, women who were farming, details if they farmer was full or part time (more common in urban areas), occasionally farmers' relatives and details of farm workers

Valuation Office Surveys are also excellent sources and were carried out by the surveyors of the Board of Inland Revenue

Here's some suggestions about what kind of maps you can find and where you can find them - both @UkNatArchives and local record offices will have fab sources that you can consult!

The Valuation Office Map Finder is a FANTASTIC resource and you can use this to find the map you're interested in researching

London maps are listed elsewhere and you can find these through the AMAZING @LayersofLondon project

We're getting such a FABULOUS range of sources from @emmadown22 tonight at #LocalHistoryHour, such as Field Books (IR 58)

Here's an example of what these look like

Tithing maps can also tell us lots about #LocalHistory and social attitudes at the time. As we learn from @emmadown22, tithing became very unpopular by the early 19th century

At this point in time we have first class and second class maps. First class maps were validated by commissioners, just as in the example below

More #LocalHistory sources for us to access to complement tithe maps comes from @UkNatArchives IR 18 series which is made up of tithe files, which each parish would have

Thanks @emmadown22 for an EXCELLENT talk and sharing with us and our #LocalHistory audiences wonderful map sources that we can use. Next @Dave_Lifelines is going to give us practical guidance on how to understand tithe maps and apportionments

As a family historian @Dave_Lifelines usually approaches these sources from a #FamilyHistory perspective rather than focusing on place yet maps can tell us so much about what was there

There are lots of sources that tithe maps and apportionments can complement and offer additional information alongside, such as censuses (the 1841 census, for example, gives some vague detail so maps can give a more detailed insight)

You can see here what a wealth of information apportionments can tell us!

This fascinating informations comes from The Genealogist, which you can access here: thegenealogist.co.uk/tithe/

The National Library of Scotland Ordnance Survey Maps can also tell us a great deal and is a fantastic resource to use alongside The Genealogist - isn't this map just wonderful?

From this we can see exactly where the properties we're looking for are and can cross reference against other #LocalHistory sources

This is exactly what @Dave_Lifelines has done in his research around William Harwood's home in Ayot St Peter

Valuation Office records are also fab and let us go back in time. We can see who else lived here, just as we see in this field book record

This process doesn't always work, but @Dave_Lifelines has shown what this methodology can tell us about our ancestors, where they lived, and the lives they led

#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory