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Routes from Roots

Routes From Roots transforms your ancestor's migration story into a dynamic visual experience, allowing you to track their movements across time and place through animated map markers and an interactive timeline. Beyond simple mapping, this powerful tool helps you uncover migration patterns of your ancestor's community network, distinguish between same-named individuals, and potentially discover places of origin by visualizing how families moved together across territories and generations.

Map Your Ancestors

Overview

Visualize ancestral migrations through animated map markers
Track movements across cities, counties, states, and countries
Explore migrations through an interactive timeline of events
Map ancestor's community networks and shared migration patterns
Discover origins through collective community migration traces
Distinguish between same-named individuals through unique migration patterns

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Begin Mapping

Welcome to Routes From Roots, where your family's journey comes to life. Our interactive platform transforms your ancestor's migration story into a dynamic visual experience, allowing you to trace their footsteps across time and place. As you easily enter or upload ancestor's names and their associated record locations and dates, you'll see their journey unfold through animated markers. Watch as these markers move across cities, counties, states, and even continents, revealing the path your family took. Each point represents a moment in time – perhaps a birth in one city, a marriage or enumeration in another, or the establishment of a new home in a different country.

Interactive Timeline Slider

Whether your ancestors moved from Boston to San Francisco during the Gold Rush, crossed the Atlantic from Ireland during the Great Famine, or gradually migrated westward, Routes From Roots helps you visualize their journey through an interactive timeline.
FAN Club

Map multiple people including your ancestor's FAN club – Friends, Associates, and Neighbors. Track social networks and uncover patterns of families moving together across territories.
Place of Origin

Visualize migration patterns of communities to uncover origins and potentially break through genealogical brick walls by tracing collective migration routes.
Merge or Separate Identities

Use visualization tools to differentiate individuals with the same name, identifying whether they are separate people or belong to the same ancestor based on their unique life patterns.

Watch Tutorial

Watch our quick tutorial to see how Routes From Roots brings your ancestor's journey to life. In just a few minutes, you'll learn how to map your family's migrations, use the interactive timeline, and discover migration patterns within your ancestor's community.

Routes from Roots

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