Many challenging research problems involve understanding where our ancestors lived, their land, neighbors, jurisdictions, and landmarks. While historical maps can sometimes be found for the geography of our research problem, they often don’t cover the timeframe or include specific data that our research has uncovered. Genealogists frequently need to edit or create maps to communicate their findings and conclusions. This presentation will focus on leveraging existing maps, using online tools to annotate and edit, and/or create new maps that can be utilized for individual analysis, as well as in research reports and articles. With over 40 years of experience as a professional graphic designer, the lecturer will illustrate techniques using free and paid tools that can be used to produce effective maps.
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Wow. I am a loss for words. Thank you for giving us so many new ideas for using maps for family history research and so many helpful hints for using mapping tools.
Outstanding presentation on the use of maps in genealogy and how it can make a difference in connecting ancestors. I appreciated the detailed explanation of using Power Point and/or Google Slides. Definitely one to watch again. Thank you
His list and demonstration of resources is outstanding, and his presentation aptly showed how mapping can help answer genealogical questions.
Wish there was a “hands on” course somewhere that would walk you through creating your own maps.
Great, and very useful, lecture! Do you happen to have any other lectures that either go more into depth in using maps for genealogical problems or any that go more into depth in creating maps, maybe step-by-step (or courses, etc.), as this is very useful, but the creating map tips was a little quick to be able to try it on my own. 🙂
Very interesting mapping information,
Great ideas for creating maps! Thank you!
Great information! I would love to do a hands-on workshop with Kimball to guide us through how to make a layered map with our application of choice. Thank you for presenting a few different options and explaining pros and cons of each. Wonderful!