Find Your Ancestor's Home Using Google Maps
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2024
- Do you want to learn a bit more about where your ancestor lived? Do you wonder if their homes are still standing? In this video, you will learn how you can find your ancestors’ addresses and how to possibly find their homes using Google Maps.
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Loved your presentation. I have had fun looking for historical homes, but you gave such good tips.
Very helpful ! Excited to start looking for ancestor's homes.
Loved this Thank you so much I can't wait to use this tool in my research
Thank you so much, great information.
We were able to visit the house in Evanston where my Mom grew up. My Aunt drew up the original floor plan. The owners were thrilled to see pics when it was newly built and the floor plan. A wonderful experience for us all.
Oh wow! Such a cool experience!
Thank you for sending info on snipping tool! Susan feiger
So awesome to see some of my ancestor’s homes! Awesome awesome awesomeness.
Robert, I'm glad you like it. We just visited my great-grandmother's home in Rawlins, Wyoming a week ago using census records as the way to find the home.
Thanks Rob!
Fun class! Can hardly wait to try this, and I bet kids would love researching like this!
Christine- we think so as well!
Yes, this would be fun for kids!
This was sooooo great! Well presented! And, I was pleased to see your great grandfather’s name was Nielsen, me too! Thanks for this presentation! I am anxious to start using this info! 🤗👍👍🙏
Thanks so much Leslie!
Street names and numbers change buildings come and go. You can use georectified digitized historical maps - Old Maps Online for instance to look at a map contemporaneous to the approximate year of the record to know for certain whether the address you are viewing has changes or not. Fire insurance maps are great for the US. The Ordinance Survey is great for Wales.
Thanks for the tips!
Very good information. I would add city directories are a great way of finding addresses. Also on Google Maps you can change the view from Satellite to Map and it will show the lots and the address numbers associated with them. So you can see at a glance whether or not the address is still existing and the numbers of the neighboring addresses and check those in the city directories, etc. for possible relatives.
Also you can follow up by contacting possible relatives still living there and exchange family information. They might have photos, Bible records and other goodies.
Also check the neighborhood for churches, schools, cemeteries, libraries near that address (for saving steps in your research and for when you plan a visit). This will help your research trip be more productive and most importantly more fun.
Another good thing with directories is if street names have changed they might show that.
It also might be a fun thing to compare land records with the Google maps aerial view and see if you can make out where the land was.
That is so neat that your ancestor's house in Wales still exists and is the post office.
Those are great tips! Thank you!
@@knowyourancestors Also passport applications have addresses and ship passenger lists either immigrants heading for the homes of relatives in America or Americans returning from abroad. Also probate and court and tax records and voting registers can all contain street addresses. And in Revolutionary War and other military records there might be letters to the National Archives from descendants of the soldiers (often women seeking membership in the D.A.R.) requesting information and those letters can have addresses and the accompanying envelopes may have street addresses.
@whyChromosomesmusic Yes there are lots of places to find addresses! Thanks for commenting. Hopefully that helps give viewers some more ideas of where to find addresses.
@@knowyourancestors Always glad to help.
I've really started to love recording and looking at the addresses of my ancestors. I'll add residence information in FamilySearch Family Tree and include the street address in the description. It can all be a good way to tie likely family members together. If you have Joe Watts living at 100 Mary street, then find in another record a David Watts at the same address, it's likely they are kin.
It’s better to use street view on the map rather than clicking that suggested photo.
In places I’ve searched in Canada, it will suggest a nearby place that doesn’t match the map you’re viewing. It might match, but there’s no guarantee.
thanks for your tips!
How do you use the snippet tool?
This is how I do it on a PC - support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots-00246869-1843-655f-f220-97299b865f6b , not sure how on a mac
@@knowyourancestors Thank you 😊
Wish you had shown HOW TO navigate in goole maps. Also "HOW TO SNIP" and save to ?
Hi Susan - I use a snipping tool - if you Google Snipping Tool you'll find one you can use for free, hope that helps :-)
If you are using a pc, you can snip by holding the "windows" key, shift, and S - at least that's how it works on my computer. There are other snipping tools like neonsky58 has commented as well. Here is some instruction for using Google Maps: support.google.com/maps/answer/144349?hl=en , and here is a video about how to use Google Maps -czcams.com/video/4F9JFTBH2TQ/video.html . Hope that helps!
What is all you had was a Rural Route?