Saturday, April 3, 2021

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Google Maps of Ancestral Homes

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!


Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1)  
Identify an ancestral home address ( preferably one with a street address...) for one of your ancestral families (You do know where they lived, don't you?  If not, consult the 1900 to 1940 US Census records, or City Directories).

2)  Go to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com) and enter the street address (and city/town if necessary - usually you can pick from a list) for your selected ancestral home.

3)  Look at the street map, the satellite map, and the street view.  Zoom in or out, or manipulate the image as you wish.

4)  Tell us or show us your map images in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post.  
Please leave a link in a comment to this post.

5)  Do you have maps and street view pictures for all of your known ancestral homes?

Here's mine:

1)  I picked my wife's mother's home at 46 Rivoli Street in San Francisco.  Edna May Schaffner was born there in 1913, daughter of Paul and Edna (McKnew) Schaffner, and lived there until she married Leo Leland in 1937.

2)  I did this (there were five entries on the dropdown menu for "46 Rivoli").

3)  and 4) The street Map view is:


This address is in the Cole Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, just northeast of Mount Sutro.

The Satellite view shows the surrounding area with vegetation, and you can get some idea of the terrain:


A zoomed in view of the house on the Satellite view shows that this house is on a street going uphill from left to right:


The Street View picture shows the front of the house:


Of course, the Street view is canted to the right because the Google vehicle was going uphill when it took the picture!  One interesting note - they blurred out the license plate on the car in the driveway!

5)  I have Google Map images for many of my ancestral homes (at least for those after 1900 where I know the street address), but not for all of my homes, and certainly not for all of my wife's ancestral homes.  Another project!

That was fun!

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Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 27 March to 2 April 2021

 The following record collections were listed on the Recently Added and Updated List on Ancestry.com during the period from  27 March to 2 April 2021:

The ADDED and Updated record collections are:

U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current; indexed database without record images, Updated 3/31/2021

Canada, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current; indexed database without record images, Updated 3/31/2021

Tabasco, Mexico, Catholic Church Records, 1803-1970; indexed database with record images, Updated 3/29/2021

South Carolina, U.S., Death Records, 1821-1969; indexed database with record images, Updated 3/29/2021

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The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at   http://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.  

By my count, there were 0 NEW collections ADDED this past week, per the list above.  There are now 32,943 collections available as of 2 April, an increase of  from last week.   

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Disclosure: I have a complimentary all-access subscription from Ancestry.com, for which I am thankful. Ancestry.com has provided material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.

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Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 27 March to 2 April 2021

 I am trying to keep up with the new and updated record collections at FamilySearch   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list) every week.

As of 2 April 2021, there are 2,974 historical record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of 2 from last week):

New and updated collections this week from FamilySearch are:

Canada Marriages, 1661-1949228,597Apr 1, 2021
Germany Marriages, 1558-19293,364,777Mar 30, 2021
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My friend and SDGS colleague, Marshall, provides this list to me from a program he wrote that compares the current FamlySearch record collections list to the previous week's list.

In order to select a specific record collection on FamilySearch, go to   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list and use the "Filter by collection name" feature in the upper left-hand corner and use keywords (e.g. "church england") to find collections with those keywords.

Each one of the collections listed above has a Research Wiki page (use the "Learn more" link). It would be very useful if the Wiki page for each collection listed the dates for when the collection was added as a new collection and the dates for major updates also.

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