I’m always happy to help and love every chance to travel back through time. If you’d like help creating your own visual tour for your ancestors, please get in touch. Free Google Earth for Genealogy Video Class from Lisa Louise Cooke.Google Earth for Genealogy from The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.Lisa Louise Cooke: Ways to Use Google Earth for Genealogy and Family History.You can download Google Earth Pro for free to your computer and there are loads of resources to help get you started, including: Seeing them so closely together on the map lets my imagination run wild: did my or my husband’s dock labourer ancestors ever buy fruit from Thomas on their way home from work? My husband and I both have dock labourer ancestors who lived a couple of blocks from another ancestor of mine: Thomas Delaney, a fruit hawker. Tour #2: Ancestors in Liverpool in 1861.Includes location markers, images, book excerpts, and videos. Tour #1: James Edward Page’s Life in Liverpool, England (1880-1975).
The best part (aside from Google Earth being free to download) is sharing this with family around the world. Layering images, videos, census records, and pages from old books on top of old maps adds context and gives a strong sense of traveling back through time (a super power every family historian wants!) Screenshot of Google Earth Proīelow are a couple of videos demonstrating how I used Google Earth to visually render my Liverpool ancestors’ lives in different ways. The Gridded Population of World Version 4 (GPWv4), Revision 11 models the distribution of global human population for the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020.
You can get a real sense of how far an ancestor had to walk to Church or to school or, as in the case of my Liverpool ancestors, to the riverside docks where many of them worked. Old maps give extraordinary insights into the layout of a town and what daily life may have looked like in the past.
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