From Ancestry.com Satellite Images by Scott Aaron I thought I'd share a process that I use for locating ancestors property with satellite images. If you have a high speed internet connection and a fairly current PC, you can download a great satellite image program called Google Earth. It's about a 9MB download (free) available at: http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/ Among the many visually amazing features of this program is a tool where you can overlay images on top of satellite photos. As soon as I saw this feature, it hit me--"plat maps!" I imported a plat map image on top of a satellite photo of the area where my ancestors lived in 1920, and just like that I was looking at a photographic map of where my ancestors' property would be located today. The program lets you adjust the size, orientation, and best of all, the transparency level of the imported image, so you can make the map match the roads, rivers, etc. of the satellite image and then you simply drag the transparency guide back and forth to toggle between the map and the satellite image to see where property would be located today. *************************************************** Carol's note: I haven't figured out where to find plat images to import, but once we figure it out, this could be very useful. Kelden and I have had lots of fun playing around with the program. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs