SA25 Genealogical Applications of Historical Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Saturday, 24 May 2025, 11:15 a.m., Stopher room

Learn to use these tools to enhance your research. Discover the diversity of these applications and wide applicability to solve genealogical problems.

The nature of GIS systems will be explained, and historical GIS systems will be defined. Examples will range from large scale applications such as Google Earth to very local or regional examples such as Original Land Grants of Loudoun County, Virginia.

Rick Sayre, CG, CGL, FUGA, expertise areas include the records of the National Archives, Irish research, land records, government documents, maps, military, urban research, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Registrants who check in at the Louisville registration desk can access this and all the lectures they don’t catch in person on the Whova app until 15 July 2025.

Registration is now open!