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Using Google Earth Web to Tell Your Family History Migration Stories

Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, FTxSGS
Oct 31, 2025
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About this webinar

Learn how to use the free Google Earth Web platform to create and share engaging, interactive, multimedia stories that follow the footsteps of your ancestors. Although both the web and desktop versions have Google Earth in their name, they are very different. Learn how to navigate the platform interface, add multimedia content to your digital story, share your digital family history story, and preserve it. We will also discuss best practices for planning your Google Earth Web story. No coding skills needed!

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Valid through: November 4, 2025

About the speaker

About the speaker

Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, FTxSGS
Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, FTxSGS is an academic librarian, college educator, and tech nerd who has been researching her family history since 1997. She is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at California State University, Fullerton, and also tea
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    Bill Moore
    11 hours ago

    Wow! So much information! I’ll definitely need to watch this one again.

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    Esin Murat
    11 hours ago

    This was one of those webinars that was genuinely novel and eye-opening! I’ll definitely be rewatching; it was very informative and will be especially useful for me, since my family emigrated from northern Bulgarian villages that would be helpful to get more familiar with. Thanks!

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    Gerry Townsend
    11 hours ago

    The webinar was very informative. This is a great way to capture family tree info with my relatives being able to relate to more than just names and dates and places but actually visualize the locations and route from one locality to another along with flying to earth to follow the road. A modern day version of Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz and the charaters she meets on her journey.

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    Ed Dunn
    12 hours ago

    Outstanding presentation! Colleen did a great job explaining a very complex process in an understandable manner. Due to the limited time, it only scratched the surface but it gave me many pointers to follow up on. I can’t wait to try Google Earth Web on my own genealogy.

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    Mary D. Taffet
    12 hours ago

    I am very glad to have attended this webinar! I think the instructions will be immediately useful to me for a number of projects I am working on! I very much appreciate the hands-on demonstration, even though the presentation went a bit long. I’m very glad to soon have the recorded webinar to review if need be.

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    Clara Lawver
    12 hours ago

    Wonderful. Glad there is a syllabus to help me when I try implementing various parts of my project / projects. Thank you. Clara Lawver in NE.

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    Patricia Briggs
    12 hours ago

    Thanks Colleen for a wonderful informative webinar. I had no idea we could use Google Earth in the ways you have demonstrated. I will definitely need to go to the webinar again because it certainly is a complex method of research but it is fascinating.

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    Karen Prytula
    12 hours ago

    She is well experienced on the topic.

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