Can Google Earth help connect you to your ancestors?
How can using Google Earth connect you to your ancestors' homes or where they lived?
The Oklahoma Home and Community Education Genealogy Group will host member Jerry Guerin on Jan. 19 as he presents “Walk with Your Ancestors: Overlay Historical Maps onto Google Earth.”
Guerin will demonstrate how to find historical maps online and then, using Google Earth as an overlay, see what the area looks like today. He will also show how to use this tool to explore family roots.
Guerin, who has worked in various health care agencies in Illinois, Nebraska and Oklahoma, now volunteers in the Oklahoma History Center Photographic Archives.
The meeting will be at 10 a.m. at the Oklahoma County Extension building, 2500 NE 63. Masks are strongly encouraged, and social distancing will be maintained. For more information and details on watching the meeting via Zoom, go to www.ohcegenealogy.com or go to the group's Facebook page: ohcegenealogy.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Speaker to share how Google Earth can connect you to your ancestors
