Google Earth

Quite often requests are posted which want to know a particular road
or street in which somebody's ancestors lived.

Whilst not all towns and cities are covered in detail, many of the
large towns viewed from space are shown in detail and road names can

Geoff...

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also be selected in web-search Earth. I could even see the birdbath in my
garden!

So, if you like wandering the world or perhaps to see the house where
your ancestors lived, get web-search Earth it's a free programme - find it
with web-search of course! You will not regret it.

Hugh Watkins...

it like modern post codes

so convert other references via multimap for example

Geoff...

Jill...

and you can create different layers, mark addresses etc so you could map the
travels of ones family around the country / globe using separate layers
Waiting for BB here :~)

Hugh,

What on earth(!) were you trying to say?

Hugh Watkins...

you may use all kinds of grid references unknown in USA

Location: B37 5BX United Kingdom
Grid ref: SP168868 Postcode district: B37 5xx (map centre)
X: 416900m Y: 286900m
Lat: 52:28:47N (52.4797) Lon: 1:45:10W (-1.7528)
Web Address:

the old-maps link has gone

Hugh W

Hugh W