Research: Cartography
© Copyright 2003 A. MacMullin

What: Street map of the area in Philadelphia, PA where my immigrant ancestors lived, went to church, and went to school.

Purpose: To demonstrate a time-line within the close proximity of documented addresses. To present significant locations in a way that unifies individual locations as a community.

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Sources:
1) Street maps: Mapquest electronic publishing application for interactive mapping. The method is geocoding.

2) District maps: The University of Pennsylvania Library website.-- Philadelphia - Maps and Geographic Information.
Daly, John Edward and Allen Weinberg. Genealogy of Philadelphia County subdivisions. 2nd edition. Philadelphia: Department of Records, 1966.
[Van Pelt Reference Desk, Fine Arts Reference: G3824 .P5 1966 D3] Historical maps of Philadelphia's political geography.
Map of Philadelphia wards and townships, etc., at the 1854 Consolidation
Map of Philadelphia wards, 1855

3) Page excerpted from "The Ancestry of Andrea & Melanie MacMullin; An examination of the MacMullin & Richardson Lines--Part I: The MacMullins," by Andrea MacMullin, 117 pgs, 2003. The McMullen/MacMullin Genealogy: Historical Notes, Pages 13.

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