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Education Center

Welcome to the Education Center. Here you will find tips, techniques, and best practices for conducting location based research whether in the comfort of your own home on AncestralHunt.com or out in the field with a GPS, Camera, Smartphone, Atlas, or just pen and paper.

We have also provided some case studies and articles from real world field research to show the power of location based techniques and the First Law of Geography for making connections, breaking down brick walls, and identifying villages of ancestral origin.

Many of the entries below are links to one of our partner sites - HistoricalTownMaps.com. I have been blogging on location based genealogy on HTM for over 2 years and have organized the entries by topic area to help you in your own location based research.

If you have tips, techniques, best practices, and case studies that you would like to share, drop us a line at educenter@ancestralhunt.com with your idea or submission. We would love to include it.

Bernie Gracy
AncestralHunt.com

How to Break Brick Walls with AncestralHunt.com	Tips, Techniques, and Observations in Location Based Field Research	Case Studies in Location Based Genealogy
Italian/Irish Immigrant Research: How to Find Your Village of Ancestral Origin	GPS: Establishing Latitude and Longitude Primer on Geocoding GPS Data Capture and Recording GPS enabled Photography	What is Location Based Genealogy? Conceptual Framework Location, Location, Location
Finding Candidate Relatives Radial Based Surname Search Physical Geographical Barriers	DNA Patterns: DNA - Part 1 of 4 DNA - Part 2 of 4 DNA - Part 3 of 4 DNA - Part 4 of 4 DNA: Epilogue Happy Y-DNA Day 23andMe: Novus Ordo Seclorum Walk Like a Phoenician	Research in Northwestern Connecticut: The Land of My Ancestors Part 1 of 3 The Land of My Ancestors Part 2 of 3 The Land of My Ancestors Part 3 of 3 Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks
	Cultural/Geodemographic Patterns: Genealogy and Geodemographics The Buraku of Japan Immigration Population Patterns Irish Immigrant Enclaves in the US Muhammad O’Ali Streetscape & Landscape Ethnogenesis 19th & 21st Century Culture Clash in Middle America Virtues Writ in Water Walking in Memphis	Research in Southern Italy: Finding Your Ancestral Home Overcoming Distance Field Based Research Timing is Everything Tourism and the Search for the Personal Past
	Religious Patterns: A Field of Divine Wonders The Miracle of August 2nd, 1656 Catholic Burial Practices Religious Motivations for Emigration All Along the Watchtower	Library Research: Data Mining Local Histories
	Economic Patterns 18th Century Trade Area Analysis Following the Money to St. Albans VT Tenement Echoes One of These Things Does Not Belong “Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here” The Panic of 1819 Bureau of Land Management	Mapping Using old maps, Google Earth, deeds and census records to find your ancestral home place Multi-Layer Map Conflation
	Spatial Patterns 18th, 19th, and 21st century Social Networking Cows Per Acre
	Medical Patterns “Our Wills and Fates Do So Contrary Run…” Physical and Cultural Geographic Destiny Pandemic
	Behavioral Patterns Location Based Echoes Part 1 of 3 Location Based Echoes Part 2 of 3 Location Based Echoes Part 3 of 3 Location Based Echoes - Epilogue
	Political Patterns Historical Elections and Maps http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/