Mapping house numbers

Tjasa Vrhovnik Mlekuz

Hi, everyone,

is it possible to map families by their house number? I have a few families, same surname, same village, just different house numbers. It would really be nice if there was some way of graphic demonstration / division acc to that.

Thanks,
Tjaša

Julia Szent-Györgyi

You have to be pretty lucky in the specifics, but sometimes, at least part of the work has already been done for you, in the form of detailed cadastral maps, showing all of the buildings in a village (and their type of construction!). The trick is, while these maps carefully number everything, those numbers aren't necessarily the house numbers, but more likely a plot number or file number in the land-registry book.

Again depending greatly on the specifics, another part of the work may already have been done, in the form of detailed house-lists, usually based on someone paging through the land records at the relevant archives. Mapping of such lists, or association of the numbers with modern addresses, is a non-trivial task, but you may get lucky. (Or, if you embark on doing it for your own family, you may consider making other people lucky by continuing the effort and putting it online somewhere, such as the local genealogy association's site.)

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Another resource that may be useful - the Society for One-Place Studies. Many locations have been researched and documented in depth by members of the Society.

Tjasa Vrhovnik Mlekuz

Thank you, both. I got through the hoops and loops of the old cadaster registries, this was not what I was asking (and I notice now, that my question was vague).

My question is, is it possible to use FamilySearch with the house numbers. My idea is to be able to "re-generate" status animarum (in a way). I have so many addresses of my ancestors and it would be awesome if there was a way to graphicallly represent who was where, so that I'd see a bigger picutre. If the function of time would be included it would be super-awesome.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

If you are searching for records, FamilySearch does not have a keyword field to perform such a search. Some other genealogy sites do have a keyword field, and it is sometimes possible to use that to search on a house number or other field. But, it depends on the number and the way the record was indexed. OCR is notoriously bad at properly capturing numbers containing the numeral 1, for example. And, if the field was not indexed, of course, it cannot be searched for.

If you mean to search within a branch of the FS tree, that's not an option on FS. You could download your branch of the FS tree into one of the third-party tree management products listed in the Solutions Gallery and perform the search in the resulting tree.

ColinCameron

Not using FS, but I've done something similar using Google Earth.

There's a variety of pins available so I used square pins for my family: yellow for my maternal grandmother's relatives, green for maternal grandfather's, blue for my paternal grandmother's and purple for my paternal grandfather's side. Then the same colours for my wife's family but using round pins. You can add any info you like (names, dates, etc.) as the description of each pin.