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Google Earth Articles
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries has been Updated
The Newberry Library's online Atlas of Historical County Boundaries is finally fully updated and interactive! Read the...
Virtual Reality (VR) and Google Earth Converge
Google has announced that it is bringing Google Earth to the HTC Vive virtual reality (VR) headset. Here's what that...
Calculate Lot Size for an Ancestor’s Property with Free Online Tool
Use this free online tool to calculate lot size for an ancestor's piece of property. The drawing tools overlaid on...
Ancestral Landmark Discovery Using Google Earth for Family History
Thom learned how to use Google Earth for family history after watching my free Google Earth for Genealogy video, and...
Lisa Louise Cooke Coming to CA: OCCGS Genealogy Bash
Are you in or near Orange County, California? Come see Lisa Louise Cooke this weekend at the OCCGS Genealogy Bash! On...
4 Steps for Using Google Earth for Genealogy
Use Google Earth for genealogy to find long-lost family locations on modern maps. Here's how! It can be very...
Celebrating 1000 Genealogy Blog Posts: #4 in the Top 10 Countdown
Lisa Louise Cooke's free Google Earth for Genealogy online video is so popular, the announcement about it was our #4...
Was This My Ancestor’s Neighborhood? Using Google Earth for Genealogy
by Sunny Jane Morton When Lisa blogged recently about Google Earth's 10th birthday, it reminded me of something...