As some of you may or may not know, I’m currently attempting to trace my family tree. I seem to be mainly using Ancestry.co.uk and enjoying myself greatly. Not to say that there aren’t a fair few changes I’d personally make to Ancestry’s software: it’s good, but could be better.

Having found the particular entry I wanted in a census, I was idly flicking through the other pages and it occurred to me that it would be really fabulous to have a map of London, with a layer for every point in time that there is data for, and be able to virtually wander round the map and visit each dwelling and see the layers of people that lived there over time. I don’t even want to begin to think about how challenging that would be to do, but I’d like someone to do it.

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