Hi Everyone, This is great... I found my house in Rochester with no problem at all. Barb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael H Thorne" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:46 PM Subject: [HARRIS] Neat mapping site... > Hope I can explain this so it makes sense... > > I found an internet site to day that provides both maps and satelite > images of virtually anywhere in the US and it's not at all hard to use > (and it's FREE). The site is called TerraServer and here's the basic > link to it: > > http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ > > Outside of the fun a lot of people will have with this, I was thinking it > might have some usefulness in sharing links to views of the farms or > houses or cemeteries or towns where our ancestors are or were. Just to > give you an example, my father was born in 1921 and lived in a little > town called Matfield Green, Kansas. The town is in a remote area of the > Flint Hills in Kansas and boasts a current population of around 30 hardy > old souls. If you click on the following link, you can all see the house > my father grew up in. > > http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=14&x=223&y=1320&z=14&w > =1&ref=P|Matfield%20Green,%20Kansas,%20United%20States (this is the > first view you get from space... but don't dispair) > > now, let me zoom in on his house (well, the immediate neighborhood > anyway) > > http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=10&x=3568&y=21131&z=14& > w=2 > > In case you're wondering, it's the house you can see just about 1/2 inch > above where it says 100M on the bottom edge of the photograph! > > Don't know if people will use this, but wanted to show everyone an easy > way to share (just cut and paste the link) some different kind of > information with everyone. Best of all, you don't have to go through > airport screening now just to see the old home place. > > Mike Thorne > > Researching: Hart, Thorne, Hunter, Holton, Kearney, Roberts, Wright, > Shunk, Painter, Logsdon, Clayton, McCreary and a few others as well. > [email protected] > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >