Rather than adding a new post, today I’m adding a new page to the “Documents” menu item, which I have renamed “Documents & Data.” The new page is called “Mapping the Census – 1840–1911.”
This is a project I’ve been working on for some time, in order to visually depict how the Casbon families have grown and moved over time. It is an interactive Google Map with census data plotted where each household was located during a given census year. It includes data from United States and England censuses, beginning with the 1840 U.S. and ending with the 1911 England census (the last year currently available).
You can interact with the map in various ways, by zooming in, moving the map, selecting different census years, and clicking on markers to show information about individual households. Check it out, and let me know what you think!
Of course, our families have grown even more and dispersed more widely since 1911. In the future, I may try to depict those movements. But at least most people today know who their ancestors were in 1911, so they can extrapolate their family’s movements from the data.
I will also soon post a graphical representation of the same census data, showing how the number of households and individual family members has changed over time. Stay tuned!
I think I understand it and will look more in detail after lunch with neighbors. Dad
Wow! This is an incredible piece of work.
I have spent the last hour reading and enjoying but must now take a break. AN AMAZING AMOUNT OF WORK. Is there a way to enlarge some of the postings? Dad
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