{"id":39498,"date":"2024-10-15T12:59:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slekt1.com\/4-tools-that-take-you-back-in-time\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T12:59:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:59:58","slug":"4-tools-that-take-you-back-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slekt1.com\/en\/4-tools-that-take-you-back-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"4 tools that take you back in time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We all come from somewhere, some still live in the same place, while others have moved and may not have seen their hometown for a while. Whether you\u2019ve moved or not, times have changed and it can be quite surprising to look at old photos from 10, 20, 50 or 100 years ago. <\/strong><\/p><div class=\"slekt-innhold_2 slekt-entity-placement\" style=\"float: right;\" id=\"slekt-3201214696\"><div class=\"slekt-adlabel\">--Advertisement--<\/div><div id=\"slekt-2429390875\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4064624966162732\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4064624966162732\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"4473708690\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the internet, we are always just a few clicks away from being able to step into the time machine and see what certain places looked like in the past.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kart.finn.no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1. Historical maps from Finn.no<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you're not familiar with the historical maps from Finn.no, you're in for a real treat. The marketplace service that is probably better known for buying and selling has a little treasure for us genealogists: the map service.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you look at an area in their map service from afar, you won't notice it, but if you zoom in closer to the ground, an extra menu item called \u00abHistorical\u00bb appears. Here you can view old satellite images, aerial photographs and historical maps for the area you are currently viewing. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about using the service to get an overview of exactly where the old family farm was located?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historypin.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2. Historypin<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Historypin is based on Google Street View. This Google service allows you to see many of the world's streets from a human perspective (as opposed to a bird's eye view). Here, older images are superimposed on the same image from Google Street View so that you can fade in and out of the historical image and the newer one from Google Street View.  &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instantstreetview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3. Google Street View<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When we mention that Historypin uses images from Google Street View, it is of course also worth mentioning that Google Street View can be a useful service for seeing what something looked like in the old days.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may not get the oldest photos through the service, but a few months or 2-3 years back in time is also historically exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some streets have now also been photographed by Google at intervals of several years. This gives you the opportunity to choose whether you want to see the street as it looked in 2010 or 2014, for example.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nibio.no\/tema\/landskap\/tilbakeblikk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4. Flashback.no<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute is behind this service, which may not be familiar to many people. Unfortunately, flash is used to present the images, which means that if you\u2019re using an iPhone or iPad, you\u2019ll have to move to a PC to get any benefit from it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tilbakeblikk.no shows photos taken in exactly the same place every few years, ranging from a few years to tens of years. The service is divided up into counties, but even though there are only a few images from each county, it\u2019s great fun to see how landscapes, buildings, and people have changed. &nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all come from somewhere, some still live in the same place, while others have moved and may not have seen their hometown for a while. 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