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All About That Place, Pacific Edition » Talks by Annette Burke Lyttle and Diane Grant

Featuring ※ Diane Grant | “Bayleys Plantation: Home of a National Hero” and ※ Annette Burke Lyttle | “Using Digitized Maps from the Library of Congress to Understand Your Place”
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It was a privilege to start this extraordinary series of live programs in our celebration of the “All About That Place” series organized by the Society of Genealogists, the Society for One-Place Studies, the British Association for Local History, and Genealogy Stories and sponsored by dozens of companies and organizations.

We’ve presented this program live to introduce communities on this Pacific side of the planet to wonderful history projects focused on one place. We love the concept of exploring places—and migrations between places—as a way of studying and telling stories about family history.

Today’s program featured two speakers who’ve generously donated their time and expertise to this effort:

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Diane Grant | “Bayleys Plantation: Home of a National Hero”

Diane Grant of Diggy’s Diaspora
  • Diane is a qualified Genealogist and member of the RQG. She has a keen interest in researching all aspects of Caribbean history and hopes to encourage others to do the same.

Annette Burke Lyttle | “Using Digitized Maps from the Library of Congress to Understand Your Place”

Annette Burke Lyttle, the Heritage Detective
  • Annette is a Certified Genealogist® who loves helping folks uncover and share their family stories. As the Heritage Detective, Annette provides professional genealogical services in research, education, and writing. She also speaks on various genealogical topics at the national, state, and local levels and loves helping people uncover and share their family stories. 

    You may run into Annette as a course coordinator for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy and the British Institute. She is a published writer whose research interests include Quaker ancestors and ancestral migrations in the US, with more than a half-dozen of her webinars accessible right now through FamilyTreeWebinars.

    Annette is past president of the Association of Professional Genealogists and editor of The Florida Genealogist.

Resources for Further Research

❧ Diane Grant

Presentation:
Bayleys Plantation Home Of A National Hero — Diane Grant
53.2MB ∙ PDF file
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Diane Grant's presentation as presented today. All Rights Reserved. For questions about Diane's presentation, kindy reach out to her directly through her Facebook, Instagram or Threads pages at Diggy's Diaspora or @diggysdiaspora.
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❧ Annette Burke Lyttle

Diane has graciously shared the handout she uses with her longer presentation on Library of Congress maps.

2024 09 27 Library Of Congress Maps AATP24 Pacific Edition
399KB ∙ PDF file
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Using Digitized Maps from the Library of Congress to Understand Your Place — Annette Burke Lyttle, CG® ©2024. All rights reserved. These notes reference Annette's talk during the All About That Place series. To learn more, please visit Projectkin.org/AATP24
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Stay tuned for an update to this post with further reference material from Annette. In the meantime, feel free to add suggestions in the comments below.

Useful Mapping Resources

A few of the map resources referenced during the talk included:

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