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August 31, 2005

New To This Site?

If you haven't visited my site before then its important to know a few things.

The main purpose of this site, or Blog, can best be understood by reading the post about my "Banner Art".

If you are new to Blogs, I have provided a Glossary, in the Left Sidebar, to help your understanding, or you can see this post, which is the same Glossary, but more definitive.

If you want to know more About this Blogs Author than please go here.

Finally, I wish to welcome you and hope you discover a new and invigorating way to approach Genealogy. Your comments or suggestions are welcome.

Are you a "Professional Genealogist" or "Advanced User of Google Earth"? Would you like to be a fellow site author here?...please email me.

Thank you,

Gary Hodges

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August 28, 2005

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Subscribe to this blogs feed, a.k.a.; RSS Feed

The term "feed" is used to describe an XML document published by many weblogs that contains a list of recent posts and entries made to the weblog that publishes it. This document can be read by other weblogs as well as applications called desktop "feed readers" or "feed aggregators"; Web browser. This keeps you informed of updates added to a blog. The links provided here are options you can choose that would enable you to keep in touch with this or any other blog that you may want to. The links are suggested methods of doing this, there are other programs for your desktop or web based readers that are available.

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Managing "My Places" - Part 2

In Part 1,of this subject, I began talking about loading your project files. Here in Part 2, I will provide more detail.

In Part 1 I left off with discussing the "scratch pad" area and Temporary Places. I also mentioned that it would be okay to delete any items that currently showed up under "My Places". This is how that looks like now.; this is how it looked before.

What I intend to do next is move my project file directly under "My Places"; before I start to add anything to it. I would do this by "dragging" this .kmz file to the My Places folder. This is what it looks like now.

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Managing "My Places" - Part 1

One of the most confusing things about Google Earth is the Saving of data, i.e., Folders, Placemarks, etc., let alone keeping it all organized.

These are tips on dealing with this challenge:

1. Looking at this Example of the "Places" window of Google Earth; you may notice the following:

  • First the globe Google labeled "My Places"

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August 27, 2005

Placemark Descriptions

Working With Placemark Descriptions:

My Example starts with a typical looking Placemark Description bubble. Notice how all the text is bundled together. My 2nd Example shows how it can look. In this Example (see my "Google Earth - Edit Placemark" dialog "before" example). Inside of the description you may notice several items enclosed in code, <html tags>, characters. These are the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard. The left arrow starts the Tag and the right arrow ends the Tag. What I am using is some very Basic HTML codes.

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August 23, 2005

Getting Organized - Part 2

Below the Search window is a window called "Places". This is where all your Placemarks, Folders, etc.. are listed. If you start from the beginning by laying out the order you want your tour to go its much easier. But, if you didn't you might end up with it looking something like this.

Important: SAVE YOUR "Places" OFTEN. You never know with computers or software for that matter. There is nothing more frustrating than losing what you've done. Before you Save them make sure ALL the check boxes to the left of each item, placemark, etc, is checked first. Anything you don't have checked may not be saved. This check mark is really a "layer" that will be viewable in Google Earth or your tour; if its not checked you won't see it in the tour. It may not seem necessary, but I have learned to make sure that they are all checked.

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August 20, 2005

Getting Organized - Part 1

Changing the Default View

My example tour starts with "My Default View". This is what you will see when you start THIS tour. As previoulsly mentioned the Google Earth default is in Africa.

First, Right click on the default Placemark (the one in Africa) and choose Edit. Then move that window out of your way so you can move the view position to where you want it without this Edit dialog being in the way.

Zoom out really far, and then navigate somewhere above the point you want your tour to start. In my example this will be California, which is the state I was born in. Now navigate and orientate the view as desired.

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August 18, 2005

Creating a Family History Tour

The important thing to do here is to think about creating a tour. Like, where do you want your tour to start?

The Default view when you open Google Earth is a view of the continent of Africa and parts of Europe. Specifically speaking, there is a "Placemark", near the south eastern tip of Africa, (it looks very small). This Placemark is what has alligned the Default view, and if you Left click on it a "NOTE" will pop up telling you its the "Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa".

I chose to change this to a view of North America, as the First Step in my Tour.

To do this...

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August 17, 2005

Intro. to Google Earth

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As a starter its important to know certain basic features of "Google Earth".

First, after you have downloaded and installed it (Note: the minimum system requirements are very important for it to work properly), you need to start it up. When you do this it will show you an image of planet earth.

You can break down Google Earth into the following basic features:

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A Missing

My dad he is missing
and I long for him.
I think he left us;
I know what it felt like,
or was it just a divorce?

Dad all those years you were gone.
I asked you, mother,
what happened, what went wrong?
You said, don't you bother,
or I will dis-own you.
What does that do
to your sons and daughter?

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