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HaploMaps | The Interactive Genealogy Maps site plots genetic genealogy results against Google Maps to help you understand your DNA results.
Their motto is "Interactive Genetic Genealogy Maps to Better Visualize Human DNA Distribution Worldwide." A mouthful, eh? Nevertheless, this is a quick and easy site for linking your DNA and other information to maps. It also looks like a great way to meet some cousins in other countries.
To contribute information about your haplogroup and subclade, click this link.
Confused about which of the many genetic genealogy companies you should test with? Visit this Sassy Jane blog post to help you choose.
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HistoryPin ("Connecting communities with local history") is the grandmama of sites that combine historical photos, maps, and personal information to create new insights into the past.
HistoryPin was launched at the Museum of the City of New York in July 2011. Recollections from the UK, USA, and Australia predominate, with over 200,000 assets and recollections "pinned" to the world HistoryPin map.
More than 55,000 users and the collections of 1,692 institutions (including the U.S. National Archives) are included. Uploads of historical images are plotted in Google Maps, comparing old photos with street views showing how the same locations look today.
Like online trees, this site depends on user-generated content, so the more you contribute, the more likely you are to make a connection.
Collections created around events or phenomena are also encouraged at HistoryPin. Here are some favorites:
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The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries at Newberry.org is a wonderful resource for U.S. genealogy research.
The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries contains a complete index of every county, county equivalent, or other area relevant to the evolution of state and county boundaries in the U.S. It includes extinct and proposed counties, non-county areas, and provides cross references for name changes, and hyperlinks to corresponding entries from the Individual County Chronologies.
A project of the William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at The Newberry Library in Chicago, the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries is a powerful historical research and reference tool in electronic form. The Atlas presents in maps and text complete data about the creation and all subsequent changes (dated to the day) in the size, shape, and location of every county in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. It also includes non-county areas, unsuccessful authorizations for new counties, changes in county names and organization, and the temporary attachments of non-county areas and unorganized counties to fully functioning counties. The principal sources for these data are the most authoritative available: the session laws of the colonies, territories, and states that created and changed the counties.
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Three-minute animation of the changes in U.S. historical county boundaries, 1629 - 2000.
(Courtesy AtlasHCBP, YouTube)
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This infographic/map documents 315 years, millions of lives, and 20,528 voyages of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Using data from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the dots represent individual slave ships, scaled to correspond to the number of enslaved persons aboard each voyage. "The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on board. And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag—was it British? Portuguese? French?—its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade.”
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database documents nearly “36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to have been as high as 12.5 million. The database and the separate estimates interface offer researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.”
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See You in February
Join me at the Illinois State Genealogical Society webinar Finding Scottish Ancestors Online on Feb 9 at 6 pm Pacific Standard Time. Free registration available at this link.
I'm also presentating at Rootstech this year and look forward as always to meeting some of my readers.
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