StudentsOfDescent

Mapping Your Ancestors

Has anyone seen this; MapYourAncestors.com? It has to be the makings of a possible alternative to what I want to see in Google Earth. It will import data from Ancestry.com or Family Search.org. Now the source of this data is somewhat hazy, but if I am not mistaken it will take all the Surnames you searched on and Place them on Google Maps. Well, this may be its biggest shortcoming as there is no way to filter out what you don't want at the beginning. They need an advance search to do this. What they really need to be able to do is to allow you to upload your own Gedcom file, like GeoGed.com lets you do (see my post on this).

Location, location, location...Earth

You've heard the saying in Real Estate; "Location...location..location". Well, since I posted about the GeoGed.com site, I'm bursting at the seems with alternatives. First, there is PhpGedView, which is an Open Source application. I found out about PhpGedView via my site statistics, which showed I had a visitor that originated from a SourceForge.net forum. Oddly, someone posted the TrackBack link for my GeoGed.com posting. It was odd in that its just a link, no comment or anything. This is what exposed me to PhpGedView. Basically, PhpGedView is or can be a collaborative, fully Internet/Web based Genealogy program that can be edited anywhere there is a Internet connection. There is supposed to be a way to display your ancestors in Google Maps with this; subject for a future post.

PicTierra and Picasa

This has to be the sweetest integration of any two outstanding programs on the Planet (Google Earth). To start, because I am always looking for a deeper meaning in things. I think I have figured out where Picasa got is name. If you don't know Picasa its basically software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. I use it all the time to enhance photos and as a library of where they are on my computer. That being said here is what I came up with:

First of all "Pic" is an abbreviated way of say "picture". Whereas, "casa", in this case, probably was meant to be "house" or "Picture House". To stretch this a bit further, and have it lead into my post I could change it slightly by saying PicTierra (Pic Tierra= earth).

How does this apply to Genealogy and Google Earth...please allow me to elaborate...