Family places, state boundaries, nearby reference towns and major rivers. Zoom within the map without stretching its proportions.
Hover over a pin or a dashed port connection to see the place, people and known dates. On a phone, tap a pin to jump to its location and evidence below. You can also use Tab and Enter.
Filled circles: documented or reported places. Open circles: suspected or unverified family links. Shared places carry several colors.
Open diamonds: ports in passenger-list leads. Dashed connections link the departure and arrival ports named in those records. The voyages are recorded, but the passengers have not been proved to be our ancestors. These lines are schematic connections, not the ships’ actual courses. No confirmed family voyage is shown yet.
Missouri, Illinois & Indiana
Zoom for labels; swipe or scroll sideways when enlarged. Numbered circles are family places; small gray squares are nearby reference towns, not new family connections. Modern boundaries and generalized rivers: Natural Earth; reference towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). This is an orientation map, not a historical boundary or property map.
Flat Mercator maps use the same horizontal and vertical scale; their proportions are not stretched to fit the page. Mercator enlarges high latitudes, especially in the world overview. Town-center positions are approximate, not home or building locations. Modern country and state boundaries are for orientation, not historical borders. Short town-label leader lines are not travel routes. Dashed port connections show recorded endpoints only, not reconstructed ship tracks. Port pins are city-level approximations, not exact docks. Basemap: Natural Earth, public domain.Individual town maps.