A fascinating new online service, called Ancestral Atlas, has appeared within the past few weeks. It is an online community environment that allows people to create and share ancestry-based maps. It is great for displaying locations of births, marriages, and burials of your ancestors as well as the locations of other important places in their lives. For instance, you can use Ancestral Atlas to display the location of family farms or the locations of a battle in which your ancestor was a participant.
I was very impressed with the service the first time I saw it. Others apparently agree with me. Many genealogists are using the service but so are historical groups, tourist agencies, and many more.
This is slick. I became a member of Ancestral Atlas within minutes after I first saw it in operation. Even better, the basic Ancestral Atlas service is available free of charge although some of the advanced features are fee-based.
At the recent "Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE" show in London, I had a chance to talk with Nick Francis of Ancestral Atlas. He describes the many features of this brand-new service.
Roots Television had a video crew at the conference and kindly videotaped our conversation. You can now watch our conversation at http://www.rootstelevision.com/players/player_conferences3.php?bctid=17062983001&bclid=14621417001 or click on the image below.
Ancestral Atlas is available at: www.ancestralatlas.com.
Fantastic, what a great idea. Lovely webste, well presented. The only problem I have, although I could be missng something, is does this mean yo have to start again? wouldn't it be lovely if you could upload a gedcom and it would input it for you? I for one don't relish adding thousands of names again just for my own tree.
Posted by: Richard | April 01, 2009 at 02:28 AM
Richard, GEDCOM upload is on the development list and will be live in a matter of weeks! Watch this space....
Posted by: Nick | April 02, 2009 at 09:31 AM