Heatmaps of events

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And this Discourse platform’s AI assisted Related Topics pops out this response from @KimberlyGreen who is deep into using maps to assist her research.

Other visualisations

RM’s ‘Places’ doesn’t quite have the flexibility for everything I want to geographically visualize, so I use Google Earth Pro, combined with downloads such as the Census bureau cartographic boundary files, ArcGIS, various historical map sites, Earth Point Township and Range shapefiles, etc. I have my ancestors organized in folders by generation, then sub-folder by line, then sub-sub-folder by person. [KzX253pda2] Within each person, I plot their locations for vital events, census locations, …