Did you also know you can view where your ancestors lived with their locations plotted on a map? The free software I've written called FT Analyzer available from http://ftanalyzer.codeplex.com/ allows you to view a GEDCOM from your family history program. The program will then do lots of lookups on Google to get all the locations of your ancestors and will display them on a modern or historic map courtesy of the maps provided by the National Library of Scotland. Of course the program does a whole lot more than that such as finding errors in your tree (people being born before their parents or being on a census after they died etc). As well as doing automated census searches of Ancestry or Find My Past (assuming you have a subscription of course) or Family Search or FreeCen (which are free) you simply tell the program to generate a list of people who you've not yet got a census fact for and click on the person and it will search your chosen website for that person with a simple click. It can also generate lists of people you have found on a census but not yet entered onto the Lost Cousins website, it can provide you with lists of likely lads to have been involved in the world wars for searching military records and generally allow you to analyse your trees it lots of different ways. Regards,Alexander Bisset > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:26:02 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Aberdeen street numbers > > Or, as we prefer to think of it on our quiet > little crescent, we may be more exclusive :-) . > > Margaret Gibbs > > > > > On 26/11/2013 12:11 PM, Cindy wrote: > > Hi Margaret. > > Often the little yellow man won't settle down on a street that doesn't have its streetview loaded (the Google cars haven't driven down it to take the pictures). > > So don't feel totally snubbed! Just your street may have been snubbed. ;-) > > > > Cindy Seibel > > > >> On Nov 25, 2013, at 9:24 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> > >> Well, thanks for telling me its googlemaps that > >> one types in, Ray. That was the part I couldn't > >> seem to find out anywhere. However, having now > >> found it, I cannot get that blasted little yellow > >> man to stand on my street. I guess he doesn't want > >> to be dragged around in the rain or something, but > >> he keeps hopefully showing me all sorts of nice > >> streets elsewhere in my city, but steadfastly > >> refuses to settle down on my street. > >> > >> I'll continue to wrestle with him. Or, more > >> effectively, I'll wait until a 13-year-old > >> grandkid is here. I suspect the little yellow man > >> will obey her, while he just thumbs his nose at me > >> :-) . > >> > >> Margaret Gibbs > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> On 25/11/2013 5:12 PM, Ray Hennessy wrote: > >>> Margaret > >>> > >>> You can get a street view of almost anywhere in the developed world by > >>> 1. go to googlemaps, > >>> 2. find the area you want > >>> 3. lift the little yellow man on the left of the screen and most roads get > >>> marked in blue > >>> 4. plonk him on any road now marked in blue > >>> 5. use the arrows on the scene to move around [easiest to see if you face > >>> the road] > >>> 6. use the circle top left to change the direction you are looking in > >>> 7. this direction can be seen in the map section bottom right. > >>> > >>> I think it's magic but then I think that for most internet things. > >>> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
That is quite an achievement Alexander! Presumably it is compatible on all platforms. PAF will do something similar relating to births impossible ;-) Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Bisset" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 2:55 PM Subject: [ABERDEEN] FT Analyzer was (Aberdeen street numbers) > Did you also know you can view where your ancestors lived with their locations plotted > on a map? The free software I've written called FT Analyzer available from > http://ftanalyzer.codeplex.com/ allows you to view a GEDCOM from your family history > program. The program will then do lots of lookups on Google to get all the locations of > your ancestors and will display them on a modern or historic map courtesy of the maps > provided by the National Library of Scotland. > Of course the program does a whole lot more than that such as finding errors in your > tree (people being born before their parents or being on a census after they died etc). > As well as doing automated census searches of Ancestry or Find My Past (assuming you > have a subscription of course) or Family Search or FreeCen (which are free) you simply > tell the program to generate a list of people who you've not yet got a census fact for > and click on the person and it will search your chosen website for that person with a > simple click. > It can also generate lists of people you have found on a census but not yet entered onto > the Lost Cousins website, it can provide you with lists of likely lads to have been > involved in the world wars for searching military records and generally allow you to > analyse your trees it lots of different ways. > Regards,Alexander Bisset --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Hi Janet, It's a windows program at present I've not been able to get it to run on a Mac unfortunately and its just too different to get it to be a tablet app even though I'd love to run it on my new iPad Air!! One of the new features for those that have tried it before but not used it lately is the ability to view your own custom maps. So if you are the sort of person (Gavin) that has a lot of old maps and scan them you can now view your ancestors locations using those custom historic maps. NB. I can't distribute custom maps with the application as they are usually subject to copyright issues. However if they are maps you have purchased you are usually free to scan them and use them for your own personal study purposes as long as you don't give them away to others. Regards,Alexander > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:34:07 +0000 > Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] FT Analyzer was (Aberdeen street numbers) > > That is quite an achievement Alexander! Presumably it is compatible on all platforms. > PAF will do something similar relating to births impossible ;-) > > > Janet > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alexander Bisset" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 2:55 PM > Subject: [ABERDEEN] FT Analyzer was (Aberdeen street numbers) > > > > Did you also know you can view where your ancestors lived with their locations plotted > > on a map? The free software I've written called FT Analyzer available from > > http://ftanalyzer.codeplex.com/ allows you to view a GEDCOM from your family history > > program. The program will then do lots of lookups on Google to get all the locations of > > your ancestors and will display them on a modern or historic map courtesy of the maps > > provided by the National Library of Scotland. > > Of course the program does a whole lot more than that such as finding errors in your > > tree (people being born before their parents or being on a census after they died etc). > > As well as doing automated census searches of Ancestry or Find My Past (assuming you > > have a subscription of course) or Family Search or FreeCen (which are free) you simply > > tell the program to generate a list of people who you've not yet got a census fact for > > and click on the person and it will search your chosen website for that person with a > > simple click. > > It can also generate lists of people you have found on a census but not yet entered onto > > the Lost Cousins website, it can provide you with lists of likely lads to have been > > involved in the world wars for searching military records and generally allow you to > > analyse your trees it lots of different ways. > > Regards,Alexander Bisset > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message