Comments on: Digitized Maps: Another source of family details

By: Schelly Talalay Dardashti

Schelly Talalay Dardashti — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:18:36 +0000

Hi, Nick.
Thank you for writing for the information on Ancestral Atlas.
Every tool that helps locate information about our families is helpful.
Schelly

By: Schelly Talalay Dardashti

Schelly Talalay Dardashti — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:11:29 +0000

Hi, Boris,
Thanks for writing. Our new blog format makes it so much easier for readers to comment and for me to reply. I love maps!
Schelly

By: Bibi Zamborsky

Bibi Zamborsky — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:47:58 +0000

I wanted to say thanks

By: Jean

Jean — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:20:05 +0000

in the “link builders bible 2010″.

By: Boris Brown

Boris Brown — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:46:26 +0000

You are absolutely right Schelly. Maps mean a lot of things to me. I remember that I saw some portion of Ohio villages have been constructed in the map for proper allocation of the land system. That was very interesting too. But it is necessary to preserve of these valuable maps. You do wonderfully well. Thanks a lot.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:57:49 +0000

Great article. Maps and location is the future for data!
Using maps and location offers the opportunity to link with others, not just through heritage but through shared events. The future is a mash up between current “two dimensional” data bases and spatial search engines so that you can find out all there is to know about a place from a myriad of data bases (both the people and the history) that are all linked to that location. Check out how much Google are investing in GIS.
Ancestral Atlas is a spatial search engine that encourages people to map their past and create their own “Ancestral Atlas”.
The one thing that links all life events is that they took place somewhere. By the way, what is about the third question you ask of anybody you meet? ….So where are you from?