David Reeves
Ancestor Map
For the fully scrollable, clickable, information-rich, continually updated version, click here.
I have been doing some more genealogy recently, and having had some success, I decided to put some of the data I have gleaned from the UK Censuses together on a map. Each of the points is one of my direct ancestors, at different times, all the way back to 1680! I was born in Birmingham, and it's cool to see my own lineage coverging graphically. Differently coloured flags represent different generations (blue = grandparents, brown = great-gp, green = gg-gp, yellow = ggg-gp, pink = gggg-gp etc).
To make this, I used the nifty new (beta) "Web 2.0" site, Map Builder. It lets you do a 'mashup' of the standard Google Maps system but with points of interest and other information that you specify. A Google Maps API Key is required, but this was otherwise simple to do.
Ancestor Map
For the fully scrollable, clickable, information-rich, continually updated version, click here.
I have been doing some more genealogy recently, and having had some success, I decided to put some of the data I have gleaned from the UK Censuses together on a map. Each of the points is one of my direct ancestors, at different times, all the way back to 1680! I was born in Birmingham, and it's cool to see my own lineage coverging graphically. Differently coloured flags represent different generations (blue = grandparents, brown = great-gp, green = gg-gp, yellow = ggg-gp, pink = gggg-gp etc).
To make this, I used the nifty new (beta) "Web 2.0" site, Map Builder. It lets you do a 'mashup' of the standard Google Maps system but with points of interest and other information that you specify. A Google Maps API Key is required, but this was otherwise simple to do.