Cartographer: one who produces maps.
When ancient mariners returned from their voyages of discovery, they turned their records and logs over to monastic type individuals (map makers, cartographers) who would turn that data into maps which other mariners would use on subsequent journeys to the same regions.
When those mariners returned, they turned their new records and logs over to same monastic type individuals who would then use the new data to make corrections and improvements to those maps, and then produce new maps that other mariners would use on subsequent journeys to the same regions.
That’s similar to what I have been doing digitally with a vast wealth of professionally recorded history for over a decade.
Over the centuries many have journeyed to ancestral regions and brought back their findings. I am comparing and distilling those findings, digitally connecting the dots of recorded history according to where the experts say they should be connected, and producing new maps of generation-by-generation ancestral pathways that zigzag through thousands of years of recorded history through the lives of actual people.
Most of these maps have never been seen before, and visually following one’s curiosity through the world’s largest maps of human genetic migration can be truly fascinating and enriching.
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September 15, 2007 at 7:05 pm
[...] I started one of the explorations by bringing up a downstream view of a map of his known Family Forest® descendants, for just the first 20 generations. A number of instantly recognizable people quickly appeared, [...]
May 6, 2008 at 2:23 am
[...] photograph and article in the February 2008 issue of Vanity Fair, coupled with their very extensive ancestral history already mapped out in the Family Forest®, make them a picture postcard perfect family to promote the Family Forest® [...]
January 18, 2009 at 11:38 pm
[...] to the ancestral history that had already been mapped out in [...]
February 12, 2009 at 9:55 pm
[...] coffee this morning, I couldn’t help but wonder what Darwin (and Lincoln) would think if he could visually explore the Family Forest® [...]
April 29, 2009 at 12:25 am
[...] mapped out in the Family Forest® than anywhere else, either online or offline. The same can be said for many of the Hollywood stars in TCM movies. [...]
August 9, 2009 at 11:24 pm
[...] to the recorded history mapped out in the Family Forest®, George Soule of the Mayflower is one of my ancestors. Whatever it might have meant hearing his [...]
August 15, 2009 at 9:37 pm
[...] geography. For 14 years now human intelligence has been digitally indexing , which translates to mapping visually, thousands of years of recorded human [...]
October 25, 2009 at 1:50 am
[...] to the family history already mapped out in the new Family Forest® National Treasure Edition, I share an important to me 1600’s ancestor [...]