This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kQB.2ACIB/3482 Message Board Post: I found that the new services showing ariel views (photographs) of the land can be very useful in locating something like an old cemetery. One of my Armstrongs, John married a Jane Stone in Lexington KY in 1812. Her family had a plantation which had a cemetery. Internet research found it was near the intersection of Elkchester Road and Redd Road seven miles west of Lexington. I went up on http://local.live.com/ and zeroed in on that spot. When I got down to one inch equal 30 yards, just up Redd Road, I saw a small wooded square, fenced in, out in a field. It was it. My daughter lives in Louisville and is going to Lexington to get papers to adopt another Chinese baby. She is going to stop the next trip. (It helps that it is near Keeneland Racetrack, which she loves.) Ken Kimble Brooklyn Park, MN
I did the same thing with Google Earth. The family homestead in rural Michigan is gone but using Google Earth, I just plugged in the address and I could see the old foundation out line. Also, I couldn't get an electronic map of the Mt. Wollaston cemetery in Quincy, MA so I looked that up and was able to talk to the grounds keeper on the phone to narrow the search for specific gravestones. Cool technology. [email protected] wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kQB.2ACIB/3482 > > Message Board Post: > > I found that the new services showing ariel views (photographs) of the land can be very useful in locating something like an old cemetery. > One of my Armstrongs, John married a Jane Stone in Lexington KY in 1812. Her family had a plantation which had a cemetery. Internet research found it was near the intersection of Elkchester Road and Redd Road seven miles west of Lexington. I went up on > http://local.live.com/ > and zeroed in on that spot. When I got down to one inch equal 30 yards, just up Redd Road, I saw a small wooded square, fenced in, out in a field. It was it. > My daughter lives in Louisville and is going to Lexington to get papers to adopt another Chinese baby. She is going to stop the next trip. (It helps that it is near Keeneland Racetrack, which she loves.) > Ken Kimble > Brooklyn Park, MN > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >