April 25 Meeting

We had a great time with Google Earth Pro today, learning how to use it for genealogy.  Participants loaded Google Earth Pro in class, accessing over 300 Rumsey Historical Maps.  Then they all downloaded the Newberry US Atlas County Boundary map collection to be able to see how the US States and Counties have changed from 1623 to 2000 in order to see for themselves where these boundary lines were when it was part of their own family heritage research.  There will be a continuation of this session on May 9th to Review how to bring in your own images (jpg) files into Google Earth as overlays for historical time lines.  Finally we reviewed the Family Tree Maker  (FTM) sessions that will be offered for everyone to learn the power of FTM, to filter and get the additional power out of this genealogy software program.

The handout for the Creating Google Earth Map Collection: Click here