You explorers in the internet (and libraries, cemeteries, microfilms, microfiche, books, etc.) no doubt will be interested in this information. Please note the subject. I only cut and pasted. (A subscription to this almost-daily newsletter, full of good information about how to expand your genealogical skills, is FREE.) E.W.Wallace This is the article: SATELLITE IMAGES 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. Scott Aaron ____________________________________________________________________ Thanks to Scott for today's Quick Tip! If you have a tip you would like to share with researchers, you can send it to: mailto:ADNeditor@ancestry.com Quick Tips may be reprinted, with credit to the submitter, in other Ancestry publications, so if you do not want your tip included in a publication other than the "Ancestry Daily News" and "Ancestry Weekly Digest," please state so clearly in your message.