Two of the free resources mentioned by Thomas MacEntee in his Pat Horan Memorial Lecture Successful Collateral and Cluster Searching for Gene-O-Rama 2021 I'd not encountered previously.
Timetoast (http://www.timetoast.com) is a timeline maker, an easy-to-use method of documenting information along a timeline. You can share the timeline with other researchers and also incorporate it into documents or websites.
I gave it a quick trial using data for George Sparkes, great-nephew of Sir John A Macdonald.
What Was There (http://www.whatwasthere.com) is "a virtual time machine of sorts that allows users to navigate familiar streets as they appeared in the past." Thomas illustrated the use with a photo of Sparks Street. Here is another Ottawa example showing the National War Memorial and the Russell Hotel that previously occupied the site. Fade between present-day and historic images.
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WhatWasThere is really cool - will have to explore it more when I have some time :)
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