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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2023
Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Lehi, UT (US);
Ivan Augusto Sanchez-Rosito, Spanish Fork, UT (US);
Syed Zahid Khadri, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marisa Brooke Jensen, Lehi, UT (US);
Monica Niehaus, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brett Johnson, Saratoga Springs, UT (US);
Kaleb Benjamin White, Herriman, UT (US);
Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Lehi, UT (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for transforming and navigating historical map images are presented. The systems and methods embodiments facilitate providing, searching for, retrieving, transforming, and/or navigating a historical map image vis-à-vis a modern location and/or map. A map interface facilitates automatedly overlaying, annotating, and aligning a historical map image(s) with a modern map, allowing a user to search for a location and see the same in the historical map image, and change a visibility of the overlaid and aligned map images relative to each other. The map interface provides user interactions that facilitate retrieving, viewing, and manipulating records, historical districts, and other pertinent data through interacting with a particular location and/or searched-for individual, such as an ancestor or other person of interest.