Jump back in time with new image feature from The Genealogist
Thegenealogist has announced a new feature on its Map Explorer that allows users to see what their ancestors’ towns and surrounding areas once looked like
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to see where our ancestors lived through their own eyes? With Thegenealogist’s addition of period photographs of street scenes and parish churches where our ancestors may have been baptised, married and buried, the new feature allows Diamond subscribers to The Genealogist to ‘jump back in time’.
The release sees the collection of historical photographs from Thegenealogist’s image archive accessible for the first time from inside Map Explorer™ as a record set layer. The various images for an area have their locations pinpointed on the maps, allowing family historians to explore their ancestors’ hometowns and other landmarks from around their area.
When viewing an image archive record in Map Explorer™, the user is shown the image’s location on the map as well as from what point of view the photographer took the photo. Also included underneath the historical image is a modern map and street view (where it’s available) so that the person researching their past family’s area is able to compare the picture from the past with how the area looks today.
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