Free Google Earth for Genealogy Video Class

Google Earth is known for its ability to virtually “fly” us to locations around the world. We can use satellite imagery, terrain maps, 3-D views of city streets and more to understand all kinds of places–even places of the past.

Google Earth for Genealogy class

In this video class you will learn how to unlock mysteries in your research, from unidentified photographs to pinpointing homesteads.

And there’s good news: Google Earth Pro is now available for free. Everything I cover in this class can be accomplished in both versions of the program. The main difference is that Google Earth Pro can print and save HD quality images. Today, the current “Pro” version of the software is now simply called “Google Earth.”

Below the video player are more resources to help you get the most out of Google Earth for genealogy. We hope you enjoy this webinar video class!

Length: 66 minutes
See additional resources below the video.

Resources

How to host map images online
(Free downloadable PDF)

Get many more Google Earth and mapping classes by becoming a Genealogy Gems Premium Member.  Classes and downloadable handouts include:

  • 5 Ways to Use Old Maps in Your Research
  • Best Websites for Finding Old Maps
  • Create a Historic Map Collection for Your Research
  • Google Earth: Time Travel
  • Google Earth – Ways to Use it for Genealogy
  • House History Research
  • Illuminating Locations
  • Neighborhoods in Google Earth
  • Paths – Create Emigration Paths in Google Earth
  • Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps – Beginner
  • Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Applying them to Research – Intermediate
  • Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection at LOC
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Front Page News! New York Tribune Archive on Flickr

Women of President Taft’s New Official Family at Washington, New York Tribune, March 7, 1909. Cover, illustrated supplement. Library of Congress image, posted at Flickr. Click to visit webpage.

The Library of Congress has a Flickr album that’s front page news–literally! It’s a New York Tribune archive with newspaper covers dating back more than a century.

“This set of cover pages from the New York Tribune illustrated supplements begins with the year 1909,” explains the album. “The pages are derived from the Chronicling America newspaper resource at the Library of Congress. To read the small text letters, just click the persistent URL to reach a zoomable version of the page.”

“Daily newspapers began to feature pictorial sections in the late 1800s when they competed for readers by offering more investigative exposés, illustrations, and cartoons. In the 1890s, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer tapped into new photoengraving techniques to publish halftone photographs, and other newspapers soon adopted the practice. The heavily illustrated supplement sections became the most widely read sections of the papers and provided a great opportunity to attract new customers. The daily life, art, entertainment, politics, and world events displayed in their pages captured the imagination of a curious public.”

How to Find Your Family History in Newspapers

Available at http://genealogygems.com

We don’t often find our ancestors splashed across front-page news. But we can read over their shoulders, as it were, to see what was going on in their world and what others around them thought about these events. Newspaper articles and ads reveal fashions and fads, prices on everyday items, attitudes about social issues and more. Read all about using old newspapers for family history in How to Find Your Family History in Newspapers by Lisa Louise Cooke.

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