Our next meeting date is Thursday,
January 9th – at 7 pm online over Zoom. Look for the link in your email. Madeline Yanov will be speaking on Madeline Yanov – Ancestral Road Trips:
Finding Your Ancestors East of the Mississippi

Have you ever wondered how and why your ancestors ended up in a certain location when they started off hundreds of miles away? How did they get from York, Pennsylvania to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia or from
upstate New York to central Illinois? Did they use the rivers or canals or go overland by foot and wagon? Did they blaze a path in the wilderness or were they part of a family migration? In order to understand how and why your family migrated you need to know what “pushed” them to move and what “pulled” them towards their final location.

In this presentation, Madeline Yanov will discuss the reasons why people moved from one area to another and the routes they took. We will look at the history of some of the more popular trails and why they were used. Maps will show the main routes between the colonies and from the states to the Mississippi River.  You will see which roads went by current cities and where some genealogical records of your ancestors might be.

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