Lines of my time: The Bakers

A StoryMap is a great platform to present information gathered from other sources. In this case, I want to tell a story about my family's patriarchal line over the last few hundred years.

 AncestryClassoom's (Ancestry.com's K12) program  offers data access to thousands of US school districts and millions of students. Currently however, students within a district are anonimized to help protect student privacy and comply with COPPA. The good news is that K12 students still have access to TONS of great data about their family - and much of this can be captured and presented in a storymap!

NOTE: The process below potentially exposes private student information. Teachers should be careful to review content created by students - and as a general rule - not publish these storymaps to "Everyone".

To keep my presented information simple, I have extracted a few key details (name, birth year, birth location) from Ancestry.com - and I'll present it in two different ways.

Timeline widget

The timeline widget allows students to present information chronologically. This is especially useful when trying to describe lines of ancestry. Below I used the "Single side" layout to present five generations.

Since I have the general birth location of six males, I could make a map. This could have the added benefit of showing movement of the family over the past 200 years.

These are just two ways to organize single family lines in StoryMaps. What other ways could work well?

The ArcGIS StoryMap software used in this demo is free for instructional use in schools and informal education youth clubs. Find out how you can request your school's ArcGIS software at https://esri.com/schools