May Meeting: Documenting Family in Google Maps

Google Maps isn’t just for finding directions. It is a great way to document your family’s journey. 

This live demonstration will show how to create a visual representation of family story migrations, with homesteads, pictures, and other helpful information. 

Agenda

• Requirements: What do you need?

• My Maps – Google Maps

• Locations

• Styles

• Base Maps

• Layers

• Save Map as Image

• New Research

• Advanced

• GPS

• Tables

Presenter

Babs Deacon is a retired IT consultant with over thirty years’ experience in managing large corporate and government projects. 

She is spending her retirement as an amateur genealogy zealot. She was the WikiTree.com USBH Documentation Team Leader and is a member of the Ocklawaha NSDAR. She has no affiliation with Google or Alphabet Inc.

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What is required to create custom Google Maps?

1. Browser

• Google Maps doesn’t require any software or app other than a browser such as:

• Google Chrome™️

• Apple Safari™️

• Microsoft Windows Edge™️

• Firefox™️

• It is important to use a browser rather than the Google Maps App

• Browsers run on any device: PC/Mac/Laptop, Smart Phone, or Tablet

2. Google Account

Please setup a Google Account before or after the meeting. We will not have time to set up Google Accounts during the presentation.

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How to Setup a Google Account “Gmail”

• It's Free

• Passport to all Google Apps and Sites

It isn’t necessary to use the @gmail.com for email

1. Go to Google.com

2. Create new Account

3. Use my current email address instead

• If you’d rather use a preexisting email address to sign in, you can link a non-Gmail email address to the account

• You will need to create a @gmail.com account but you won’t need to use it.

• Enter your first and last names Choose a @gmail.com address
• Write down your new @gmail.com address
• Click the Show password box Choose a password
• Write down your password
• Fill in the rest of the fields to create the gmail account