# Heatmaps of events

**URL:** <https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/heatmaps-of-events/16208>\
**Category:** RootsMagic\
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**Created:** [September 8, 2026, 6:09am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/heatmaps-of-events/16208 "2026-09-08T06:09:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![TomH](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/tomh/32/30_2.png) [@TomH](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/TomH)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 8:55am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/heatmaps-of-events/16208/3 "2026-09-08T08:55:09Z")

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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](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/other-visualisations/7296/2):
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> 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](https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/cartographic-boundary.html), [ArcGIS](https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html), various historical map sites, [Earth Point Township and Range shapefiles](https://www.earthpoint.us/TownshipsSearchByDescription.aspx), etc. I have my ancestors organized in folders by generation, then sub-folder by line, then sub-sub-folder by person. Within each person, I plot their locations for vital events, census locations, …

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