The Ontario Genealogical Society’s free monthly webinar takes place Thursday, May 4, at 7:00 p.m. when Jennifer Alford will speak on Genealogy and GIS.
When you dig into genealogy a repeated lesson is to know your location. We’ll uncover how using GIS can connect geospatial history with your family history research. In this session we’ll cover the exciting historical geospatial information that is now available for use in Google Earth and the many other tools available online.
Frankly, even after reading the webinar description, I still had no idea what GIS was, so I Googled it. Here’s what I found: “A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data.” It will be interesting to learn more about this and how it can be used in our research.
To find out more about GIS, register here for the webinar.
Sounds interesting.