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“*Make Your Own Family Map Using Google’s My Maps”

Francine Kennedy
2/10/18

Categories: RT, IR

Talk Abstract:
You can put your ancestors on the map and share it with your family using the straightforward tools provided free in Google’s My Maps. She will demonstrate how to create and edit maps showing places your family lived, migration routes, and different generations, adding notes, photos, and icons depicting their unique history. Annotated mapping can be an inspiring interactive tool to share with young people in family history. Even at a distance, collaborators can create maps and view the shared information. These mapping tools are also useful for planning a research trip to map out archives, libraries, courthouses and cemeteries to visit. Including relevant phone numbers, web sites and opening hours all in one place organized geographically is genius. On a trip use the map like a journal and record what you discover each day, add photos, and allow those at home to follow along virtually on your trip. She will focus on family maps in this guided tour of Google’s My Maps and introduce many useful ideas for your own maps. Inspired with ideas for unique maps you can share with family members and can continue to add to in the future, you may wish to review this webinar and follow along step-by-step. All you need is a free Google account to use the online tools.

Speaker Bio:
Francie Kennedy is passionate about microhistory and inordinately fond of maps and old county histories. She often stays up late collecting resources for her students in Beginning Methodology classes, and integrating these resources in new ways. Francie believes that the study of the past through the fascinating lens of genealogy can bring us a new understanding of the world we live in and a sense of our own place within it. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), and speaks to genealogical societies on a variety of topics ranging from Google to geography. Past president of the South Orange County California Genealogical Society (SOCCGS), Francie attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, and is a fourth generation native Californian. More information about her is on her Association of Professional Genealogists web page and her blog . She will be giving this presentation and the class following via the Internet from where she lives in California.

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NOTICE: This presentation is part of a set of over 400 presentations on genealogy and family history produced by "UVTAGG: The Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group".
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