My Wandering Genes
I made big leaps and gains in my family tree on Ancestry--logging over 100 relatives so far! My grandfather's American parentage is quite well fleshed out, to the point where Ancestry's black box magic auto-suggests things. It looks like my grandfather's mother's family moved West from Connecticut and his father's family is from assorted parts of England. Genealogy can usually tell you the who, when and where--it can't always tell you the how or why. So, my next questions are, how did my grandfather's parents end up in Alberta, Canada and why. My grandfather's father's side loved wandering--they were born in one place, married in another and ended dying or buried in yet a third place.
Ancestry's mapping ability isn't the most amazing, so I'm going to try turning to Google Maps. I created a new map with a layer for each side of my grandfather's family. I'll see if there's an easy way to export the data out of Ancestry so I can import it into Google Maps. This quick video shows how!
Ancestry's mapping ability isn't the most amazing, so I'm going to try turning to Google Maps. I created a new map with a layer for each side of my grandfather's family. I'll see if there's an easy way to export the data out of Ancestry so I can import it into Google Maps. This quick video shows how!
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