Within U.S. Army Public Health Command's G-6 Directorate of Information Management/Information Technology is a small team of geographers who use maps to tell some very detailed stories. The team takes ...

Searching for the area where an ancestor lived? After checking old deeds and other courthouse records, one can often obtain a legal description of the area. Once that information is known, the next ...

In the case of the plat map, an abstract is actually literal. These old sheets laid out the legal names for the streets and real estate parcels, creating a visual database of the city. They were bound ...