Questions tagged [gis]
For digital mapping questions about geographically displaying genealogical data. GIS is an abbreviation for "Geographical Information System", a digital representation of location-based information that (among other uses) can be displayed on a map. For questions about historic maps, use the "maps" tag instead.
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How do spatial analysis (GIS) and genealogy overlap?
I'm working on my Ph.D. which will hopefully expose some ways in which spatial analysis (using the tool I know - GIS) can prove useful to genealogical research.
At present I am still struggling with ...
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Standardizing place names when city sprawls across county borders?
Some genealogical software draws on the API for Google Maps so the user can plot the events on a map. This might be a desktop-based application such as Calico Pie's Family Historian, or a web-based ...
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Finding Specific Railroad Segments in the United Started named after employees?
I have found at least two references in notes passed down to my be others that indicated they might have Railroad spur / section was named after them.
Searching Newspaper.com and Google Books while ...
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Finding surname distributions for names in Poland before WW2?
Gen-evolu allows us to see the distribution of family names in Germany both in modern times and during the peak of the third Reich in WW2, before Germany was affected with the ethnic cleansing of its ...
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Determining subdistrict extent from code in post-1993 GRO index?
Through 1992, the GRO indexes for births and deaths in England and Wales cite a volume and page in the registers (as they have done since the inception of civil registration in 1837). After 1992, the ...
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How to connect digitized images to a map?
This is similar to the earlier question How to index your own digitalized records? but with a twist.
One of my places of interest uses a lot and block survey system and has maps available for ...
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Application to create a Google Map of ancestors?
I had the idea some time back of working on an app that would take a GEDCOM and identify the geo-coordinates of each person's birthplace, then map these on a Google map. Do you know of any app that ...
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Which genealogical software supports location-based events?
While writing down family history excerpts or stories, I often find myself in need of finding out how my family events relate to the history of the place they happened at. For example, several of my ...
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Tracking family names and migration patterns using GIS?
I posted a question, Using web mapping and geocoding to track genealogical data, over at Geographic Information Systems SE awhile ago, so I was quite excited when I saw the proposal for this site. I ...
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