Thank you, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Linda Teather, Flora M Brown, Kyla Bayang, Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA and so many of you for joining me in welcoming our guest Crystal Lorimor today. I suspect that many of you will have participated in, or watched the video for, our terrific conversation on Thursday with the team at Belmont County, Ohio working on this GIS Mapping Project.

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Today, our program picked up where last week left off by opening a discussion about the implications of this kind of community connection to history. The GIS tool creates a map view of this first surveyed region in the American Northwest Territory.

Explore the web application: gis.belcogis.com/Northwest_Territory. Access is free, and no login or registration is required.

Crystal and I talked about how knowledge of these kinds of stories in a local region can affect a sense of pride of place — and the agency to make a difference in a community.

* How a story can reframe a view of a community

* How the whole project started with graph paper and an idea. Really, it was a variation on the classic FAN (friends, associates, and neighbors) research approach used in one-place and genealogy reseach.

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Connecting people and documents to place seems like a wonderful start. Could this be done in your community?

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