Mapping the Genealogy Journey

     Even with my ancestors sticking to a pretty centralized locations in Georgia and South Carolina, it can be difficult to keep track of their locations.  To stay organized, I add locations of homes, cemeteries, and libraries in Google Earth.  It's really easy to do and is saved to my desktop.

     Aside from being a database of their locations, it also becomes a map of my travels. The map below shows only the locations that I've personally been to in my genealogy journey.  It's interesting to me that I've been so many places, but many are still very close to home. By driving only an hour or two I can go back in time 300 years. Thanks for not traveling very far Ancestors! 

The Waters Family in Atlanta

     Here's the Google Earth family history tour that I created based on Lisa Louise Cooke's class at the Georgia Family History Expo. This tour talks about my Great-Great Grandparents, Leverett and Louise Waters and their lives in Atlanta in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Playing with Google Earth Time Slider

     Right now I'm working on a Google Earth genealogy timeline that I learned how to make from Lisa Louise Cooke's Family History Expo presentation. Every time I think I'm finished, I come up with another thing to add or tweak.

     While playing around I saw the little clock image and remembered that Google Earth has older satellite images in it's databank. The images don't necessarily go back very far, but it can still be interesting. I decided to check out my own neighborhood and surprisingly, there are images from the year we moved in, 1993.  It's interesting to see the changes. There are a few new roads, a lot of new neighborhoods and some new shopping centers.

     Here are the two images: