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💎Would you like to be able to find your ancestor's property on a map today? In Elevenses with Lisa episode 67 I'm going to show you how. We're going to take U.S. government survey legal land descriptions found in sources such as Federal Land Patents and quickly and easily plot the boundaries in Google Earth Pro. I'll also show you an easy way to do it for property in Canada too.

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Download Google Earth Pro software (free) https://www.google.com/earth/versions/#download-pro

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⌚ Chapters:
00:00 introduction
01:23 Downloading Google Earth
4:52 how to find your version of Google Earth
08:45 why you should use Google Earth to plot land
10:35 Using Earthpoint
18:40 filing and saving your map
20:07 earthpoint KML file orange box
21:23 earthpoing KML file pink box
22:10 Aliquots
23:56 create a polygon in Google Earth
36:15 how to rename a Google Earth polygon
38:09 how to edit a Google Earth polygon
39:49 how to find the current address of an old address
47:55 plot a Canadian land description in Google Earth