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Airbnb focuses (but falls way short) on family heritage travel

In looking into an eventual "family-roots" trip, I've been poking around the Internet a bit, and came across this video made by, of all outfits, Airbnb, highlighting the fact that family-heritage travel is up 500 percent since 2014. It focuses on a woman who's an Airbnb tends specialist, taking a trip with her father to a region of England from which their family hails. Honestly, it's pretty unsatisfying - they just bop around a bit, visiting a cheese shop and calling upon a couple of Airbnb…

Genealogy Trips to Poland

A growing number of people have turned to trace their Polish roots.Presentday citizens of the USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia or New Zealand. There were a few waves of emigration for different reasosns (economic, political, repressions) starting with the 80-ies in the 19th century. Most of emigrants travelled throgh Bremenhaven. There was also a huge exodus of Jewish people and 4 Kindertansporten to London just before the outbreak of WW2. Mennonites. Nowadays, their descendants take trips to…

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David Paul Appell October 13, 2023 at 1:21pm

Another very helpful article about geneaology travel, this time from WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/heritage-genealogy-travel/

Advice | How to plan a genealogy trip to connect with your roots

Ancestry trips are on the rise as consumer DNA test kits and digitized genealogical records have become more accessible.
Jordan Simon January 8, 2023 at 9:25pm

A fascinating piece in Condé Nast Traveler by a woman looking for her family roots in Samarkand and Bukhara, Uzbekistan: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/uncovering-lost-family-history-in-...

Journeying to Uzbekistan to Find the Missing Pieces in My Family History

Curious about the two-century gap in her family's itinerant history, Sarah Khan sets out to uncover tales of those who came before.
David Paul Appell October 18, 2022 at 12:18pm

Next year I'm planning a long overdue trip to Ireland - and later eventually Romania - which will have a genealogy component. And I've been a bit hesitant about where to start - both because the process seems like it will be involved and tedious, and trying to sort out the resources on the Internet seems pretty confusing so far. So it was great to see this piece from business/money website Kiplinger.com laying out some good strategy with specific, vetted examples. I plan to follow their advice for sure. https://www.kiplinger.com/article/spending/t062-c000-s002-6-things-...
sandra sarandon June 29, 2011 at 8:48am

Dear Margaret,            www.palliserbaybb.co.nz            Palliser Bay B & B

                       Family Roots Genealogy Travel , sounds fascinating.

In 2008 I traveled to Dubai,Sicily Lavanzo Is.,Italia, France,Spain,Ibitha,Scotland, Orkney Island,Denmark,Sweden, & Norway ,in search of my Ancestry through it's ART in Museums.I was mainly interested in Celtic & Viking ART and artifacts.It was purely an ART RESEARCH TRIP.As a lot of the information was in non English, it has taken me three years !! to piece it all together.Finding my same photographs (I took 700 photographs !) in books and on websites has enabled to piece together information that goes with the photographs I took.

      I think the adventure of finding out who we descend from ,helps identify who we really are. CHEERS ! From Sandra Sarandon.

      I will keep in touch with your site.I t would be good to find some more people's names who are related to me.

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