One thing I do sometimes at our family reunions is to do a presentation (I’m a retired college professor, so just try to stop me). I usually pick an interesting part of our family history (like two brothers that married two sisters) and weave a tale showing pictures of ports, ships, paths, locations…

I just went back to my old Google Slide presentation from 2017, and I see that the Story presentation isn’t that different from my slide layout: [image]

A slightly different feature, but still related to the ideas of exploration and storytelling, I’ve added an image comparison in Gramps Connect. Here is a video showing: Dragging and dropping images on a person. Automatically adds the images to the person’s associated media. Selecting an image, an…

Hey, if you find any of this interesting, consider giving the gramps-connect repository a star: [image] GitHub - dsblank/gramps-connect: A modern, fast Gramps-based web app for genealogy... A modern, fast Gramps-based web app for genealogy and family histories …

I was the second person to star it! :grin:

[image] dsblank: an overlay and slider Reminds me of sites like meyersgaz.org where you can use a slider to compare current and historical maps. Or like openhistoricalmap.org , where the timeline slider causes the names of places to change (for casual users, this could be an alternative to c…

@GeorgeWilmes I like the fade of Straussberg 2) … I may have to add an option to do that! Oh, and OpenHistoricalMap has some open source maps: OpenHistoricalMap/Reuse - OpenStreetMap Wiki Thank you; very useful resources!

I added the Open Historical Maps and, oh, this is so useful! I made the Story presentation automatically bring up the map from the date from the event: [image] So as you move from slide to slide, the place on the map changes, and so does the date of the map! I have already made a discovery in my…

It seems that artificial waterways might be also used. Just need to update the timeline (period) on some locations (as it does match the right building years in France).

[image] dsblank: I have already made a discovery in my own family history: I wondered why my family purchased the old Blank homestead on a piece of land with a railroad running through it? With the historic maps, I can now see that the railroad wasn’t put in until 4 years later! As I was thin…

Stories now support KML files: [image] (KML borrowed from @PLegoux 's example) If a place has a reference to a KML-type media, it will automatically display that on the map. It can even use the KML long/lat to find the center of mass of the area, and put the location marker there. Very useful wh…

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As I was thinking “it would be nice to show the boundaries of that homestead” when I remembered the work done by @PLegoux and championed by @emyoulation on Keyhole Markup Language, or KML. I’m going to work that idea so that those will show up here too. Search for KML in this discourse, and here is a tutorial:

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