Last week, my daughter and I went to the movies to watch
"Lion". According to my Google-employed son who told me about
the movie, it was about a guy using Google Earth to find his birth home and
village and more specifically his family. It was a very touching movie!
The movie got me
thinking on how many times I have used Google Earth for my genealogy research.
Some of my more memorable searches include the following:
1. Locating parcels of land where my Great
Grandmother Bridget Chambers spent her childhood in the townland of Letter,
Islandeady, County Mayo, Ireland. [If I had used Google Earth while on the road
in Ireland I might have been able to see the land with my own eyes]
2. Trying to match
a house that I have in a 1960 photo (the childhood home of my Great Grandfather
Bryan Sherlock in Demailestown, Meath, Ireland) to see if it still exists today. [Sadly I had no luck
with my search but considering how old that house would have been -- he lived
there in the late 1800's -- it probably has been torn down and a newer house built.]
3. Locating the
following churches -- Katholische Maria Himmelfahrt (Helferskirchen, Rheinland,
Germany), Saint Boniface Church (Wirges, Rheinland, Germany) and St. Laurentius
Church (Dernbach, Germany). [This helped with my visit to see them in 2015]
4. Trying to see what
the house my Grandmother Theresa Nebgen Sherlock grew up in Chicago, looks like
today.
5. And of course,
looking at my Google Earth photos of my childhood home in Southern
California.
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