Ever wondered exactly where your ancestors were baptised, married or buried? New mapping features from TheGenealogist make it easier to connect historic parish records with the churches where those events took place.
TheGenealogist has expanded its MapExplorer™ tool by linking parish baptisms, marriages and burials to the locations of more than 6,000 churches.
This allows researchers to explore the places associated with important events in their ancestors' lives, even where a church has since been demolished, rebuilt or altered.
The update also includes more than 3,000 historic photographs and paintings of churches, added to TheGenealogist's Image Archive.
Where available, these images are linked to the church locations on the map, allowing family historians to see what a building may have looked like in earlier times.
Another new feature allows researchers to display search results as geographical heatmaps.
These can reveal where particular surnames were concentrated, helping to identify possible family connections, regional patterns and movements between communities.
For anyone researching parish records, the combination of maps, historic images and geographical search results offers another way to explore the places associated with their ancestors.
The features are available to Diamond subscribers through TheGenealogist's MapExplorer™.
