This announcement from TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk) specifically concerns England, but may be of interest if your family moved south, and is certainly a huge milestone for the collection concerned:
TheGenealogist reaches over 1 million 1910s Property Records TheGenealogist has now added a total of over 1 million individuals to its unique Lloyd George Domesday Survey recordset with the addition this week of 85,959 individuals from the 1910s property tax records for the Borough of Haringey. Covering the areas of Hornsey Central, Hornsey East, Hornsey West, as well as Tottenham A, Tottenham B, Tottenham C and Wood Green this week’s release is made up of maps and field books that name property owners and occupiers in a exclusive online resource that gives family history researchers the ability to discover where an ancestor lived in the 1910-1915 period.
When combined with other records such as the 1911 Census, the IR58 Valuation Office records give researchers additional information about their ancestors' home, land, outbuildings and property. While these records may be searched from the Master Search or main search page of TheGenealogist, they have also been added to TheGenealogist’s powerful Map Explorer™ so that the family historian can see how the landscape where their ancestor lived or worked changed as the years have passed.
All of the contemporary OS maps are linked to field books that reveal descriptions of the property, as well as listing the names of owners and occupiers. This release makes it possible to precisely locate where an ancestor lived on a number of large scale, hand annotated maps for this part of London. These map the exact plots of properties at the time of the survey and are layered over various georeferenced historical maps and modern base maps on the Map Explorer™. Only available online from TheGenealogist, these records enable the researcher to thoroughly investigate a place in which an ancestor lived even if the streets have undergone massive change in the intervening years.
There are further details on the most recent update to this collection at https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2021/haringey-land-valuation-records-uncovers-the-modest-house-that-gave-its-name-to-a-famous-football-stadium-1429/.
COMMENT: A parallel record set from 1910-1915 that you may not be familiar with in Scotland - and which are certainly not the easiest to use! - are the Inland Revenue Survey Maps and Field Books. These were compiled as part of a valuation exercise carried out in Scotland by the Valuation Office - for further details see https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/inland-revenue-survey-maps-and-field-books.
In many cases you can see plans of buildings as they existed at this point, as well as other useful details about the properties, including on ownership and leases, but it is probably fair to say that this is one collection that you may certainly require some assistance with at the NRS in Edinburgh - but they may certainly be worth the effort!
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