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This reminds me I need to write my own migration story, from New York to Florida before air conditioning and interstate highways in 1959. And then from Florida to Arizona with both those comforts in 1984.
ReplyDeleteMary,
DeleteI would be very interested in reading your story. Even those two things sound like luxuries compared to what the pioneers endured, they still have made a huge difference in our own travels. Let me know when you write your story, I would like to be one of the first ones to read it!
Diane
My family migration story...not much of one. They all arrived on the east coast and didn't go far. Though there is a family story of one man leaving Maryland to go 'west' in the late 1790's. He ended up staying in South Carolina instead of getting more 'west' which I guess would have been Georgia. Except for him, my people weren't adventurous.
ReplyDeleteIn 1790, just travelling one state away to South Carolina was not very easy. So, that is a migration story! My ancestors were notsure as adventurous as others.No Oregon Trail, or anything. They got as far as Indiana or Illinois, and put down roots.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I always try to figure out how they got from point a to point b. I have some that must have traveled the Erie canal and through the Great Lakes by steamboat from New York to Wisconsin. I figured that was the way because after children died, the family was on a steamboat traveling back to NY and the mother jumped from the steamboat on purpose and drowned in Lake Michigan. It is documented in the paper in 1848. The father ended up on a wagon train to CA and the oldest son and daughter somehow ended up in Texas for a while. Did they go down the Mississippi? Seems like the fastest route. Then how did they get to CA from Texas in 1855? Still trying to figure that out.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to hear about how the part that Lake Michigan played in your family's history. But I do believe you're right. The waterways played a very important part. One of my ancestors brought his family from the Syracuse, NY area to the Chicago area in the late 1830's. The Erie Canal had just been finished recently. Any guesses on how they got most of the way to Illinois?!
DeleteMy Dad traveled from Boston to Montana in 1906, but I have no idea as to the route? Any ideas? Thanks, Norm
DeleteNorm,I am not as familiar with the routes that one might have taken for that trip. My ancestors lived elsewhere. But, give me a few days, and I will see what I might be able to find for you.
DeleteNorm, I just got thinking that since it was at a later time (1906) than when you normally think of for pioneer settlers, have you thought about the possibility of train travel, also?
DeleteNorm,
DeleteI have been doing some research for you, and might have founds some leads. It appears that some railroads companies also bought up Great Lakes steamship lines. According to FamilySearch.org Wiki (https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Minnesota_Emigration_and_Immigration), "Settlers generally followed the Great Lakes and the railroads to Illinois and Wisconsin, or they traveled up the Mississippi River. Steamboats and vessels traveling the lakes and rivers were not required to keep passenger lists."
It sounds like this combination of trains and Great Lake travel is how many from the East coast came to settle the Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
I hoped that I helped just a little bit!
Diane