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GOOGLE MAPS AND MY MAPS
Event Description:
Description: Google provides two tools that can help with planning road trips, Google My Maps, and good old Google Maps. Google Maps enables you to create and save detailed direction instructions with up to 10 destinations. Therefore, you can only get directions from place A to place J via 8 other stops along the road. You can only use one Layer. Tony will also talk about Google Earth. Google My Maps The main job of Google My Maps is to save a map with lots of pinned locations. You can save 10,000 pins in a single Google My Map in dozens of Layers. You can also add driving instructions as separate Layers and alter the routes. This allows you to have a layer for what to see on a specific day and another layer for how to drive it including the time it will take. You can even send the directions to your cell phone.
Presenter: Tony Hjelmstad has led the Fjelldalen Slektforskningklubb (Norwegian genealogy club) since 2019 and is currently the editor of the CoPalAm and Fjelldalen Newsletters. He does occasional presentations around Colorado for various groups. Tony has been helping his wife with genealogy since 1990 and been active on his own genealogy since 1995. He has found all his U.S. immigrants and has traced most of them back to before 1700. He is a member of NGS, CGS, CoPalAm and PalAm (Germany), Slekt og Data (The Genealogy Society of Norway), The Finlandia Foundation of Colorado, W.I.S.E., St. Charles County History Society, St. Louis Genealogy Society, and the Highlands Ranch Genealogy Society. He has written several articles for the NGS Blog, for the Sons of Norway Viking magazine, NGS GEMs, and both the PalAm and CoPalAm newsletters.
In-Person Venue: Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 8545 E. Dry Creek Road, Centennial, CO 80112
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Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2886650-0
