October 17, 2025 — Mapping for Research Success (2025 Reisinger Lecture)
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17 October 2025
2:45 pm (Mountain) (4:45 pm Eastern)
Many challenging research problems involve understanding where our ancestors lived, their land, neighbors, jurisdictions, and landmarks. While historical maps can sometimes be found for the geography of our research problem, they often don’t cover the timeframe or include specific data that our research has uncovered. Genealogists frequently need to edit or create maps to communicate their findings and conclusions. This presentation will focus on leveraging existing maps, using online tools to annotate and edit, and/or create new maps that can be utilized for individual analysis, as well as in research reports and articles. With over 40 years of experience as a professional graphic designer, the lecturer will illustrate techniques using free and paid tools that can be used to produce effective maps.
This class is presented live at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City as part of the Joy Reisinger Memorial Lecture Series and is being broadcasted by Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
Read more about presenter Kimball Carter, CG
Kimball Carter, CG®, is a retired graphic artist and Creative Director. He is a Certified Genealogist® with nearly fifty years of family history research experience. For the past six years, Kimball has served at the FamilySearch Library helping patrons with their German and pre-1850 U.S. research. Kimball is very comfortable with computers and technology. With skills acquired during his forty-year career in the graphic arts, Kimball is skilled in creating maps and digitally restoring old photographs and documents. His website includes an immigration section devoted to helping people find the birthplace of their ancestor in Europe as well as a section for reading old German paleography. With many Colonial Virginia ancestors, Kimball spends much of his time researching and writing about their lives. He has taught at RootsTech and his work has been published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.