Google Earth....UGH............

I promised myself that this year I was going to really learn how to use Google Maps and Google Earth.  I'm usually a dive right in kind of person and then if I get stuck I'll try and find instructions, but told myself that I wasn't going to do that this time as there is so much to learn, and so much I want to do with these two applications.

Yeah, that didn't last long....................

One major thing I want to accomplish is to pinpoint all of my Brooklyn/Long Island ancestors addresses onto one map so anyone can see where everyone lived in relation to one another.

Made a list of about 8 addresses and figured that was a good start.

Typed in 169 Troutman St., Brooklyn as that was where my great great grandfather, Casper Roth, was living when he passed away. He passed away at home so if I could find this building I would be looking at where he passed.

Cool!

Good news is I was able to find the building, bad news is it was difficult to manipulate the image to my liking, but I finally got one.

Took me 10 seconds to find the building and 30 minutes to get the image I wanted!

 It was hard for me to get an image of the whole building.

 I kinda had to do an onside thing. 

I thought this view was kinda cool though. 

According to Casper's death certificate this was a tenement building. Neat to still be able to see all of the old tenement buildings from this view.

Bottom line is I'm happy I was able to get images. I looked up two other addresses and the buildings don't exist anymore. Hoping I can still put a pinpoint on the place where the houses used to be and someone said that you can overlay old maps over the current ones, but I'm saving that lesson for another time!!