Looking for all the right places to research your ancestors in the United Kingdom and Ireland? Check out the Goals for Maps and Gazetteers in The Family History Guide. These Goals are located in the following Country pages:

• England
• Scotland
• Wales
• Ireland

Some of the map resources you’ll find include

• David Rumsey.com contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania.
• Old Maps Online indexes over 400,000 maps. This is thanks to the archives and libraries open to the idea who have provided their online content.
• GenMap UK is a program for UK distribution mapping. You can create maps of historical or genealogical data relating to the British Isles using your own data.

Another interesting place for maps across the United Kingdom is the Vision of Britain site. It has a series of tabs for topographic maps, boundary maps, and land use maps, as well as instructions for using the online map library.