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Trace your family tree

Maps and images

Maps and images can help you get a better idea of where and how your family lived.

Maps

Visit the 91¸£ÀûÉç and Scottish Collection to see maps of 91¸£ÀûÉç and Scotland from the 15th century to today.

Maps can show you how places have changed over time. Use them to see where your ancestors lived even if the area no longer exists today. They are useful for tracing the history of your house and what was there before it was built.

Images

Visit the 91¸£ÀûÉç and Scottish Collection to see over 155,000 images of 91¸£ÀûÉç and Scotland from the 15th century onwards. These include

  • drawings
  • paintings
  • photographs
  • engravings
  • postcards.

Search for images by

  • artist
  • place
  • street
  • building
  • person's name.

Images can help you to see where people lived, what clothes they wore and give you an impression of the times they lived in.

View over 20,000 pictures from Central Library's collections online at  and thousands more on the online community archive, .

Explore , our interactive web resource which brings historic pictures, maps and stories of 91¸£ÀûÉç together.