Saturday, April 14, 2018

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- My Visited States/Provinces Map

It's Saturday Night - 
time for more Genealogy Fun! 


Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:


1)  What states in the USA and what provinces in Canada have you visited or lived in?  

2)  Either list, or make a map of them (at the https://www.gasfoodnolodging.com/visitedstates/us-canada/ website) and indicate the following:

*  red for states/provinces where you've not spent much time or seen very much.
*  amber for states/provinces  where you've at least slept and seen some sights.
*  blue for states/provinces  you've spent a lot of time in or seen a fair amount of.
*  green for states/provinces  you've spent a great deal of time in on multiple visits.

3)  For extra credit, you could make a map to show where your ancestors resided at any time (e.g., in 1900), or perhaps where your 16 great-great-grandparents or 32 3rd-great-grandparents married, or where your ancestors were born, all with an appropriate legend.

4)  Tell us, or show us, your "Where I've been" map, and any other map that you created having fun tonight.  Put them in your own blog post, on Facebook or Google+, and leave a comment on this blog post so that we all see them.

Here are my maps:

1)  My "Where I've been" map of the United States and Canada:



So I've been to 40 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.  I have ancestral localities in Iowa and Nebraska and definitely want to visit there someday.  

I've only lived in California, but have made more than five trips to the other green states (hmm, maybe Hawaii and New Hampshire should be green too!).

2)  I decided to show where my 16 great-great grandparents resided at the time of their marriage.  The scale I used is:

*  red for states/provinces where 1 or 2 resided at marriage.
*  amber for states/provinces where 3 or 4 resided at marriage.
*  blue for states/provinces where 5 or 6 resided at marriage.
* green for states/provinces where 7 or more resided at marriage.


I have 1 state (Massachusetts) where four of my great-great-grandparents resided at marriage, and 4 states and one province where 2 resided, and another 2 that married in England.  These marriages occurred in the 1840 to 1865 time frame.

3)  I decided to show the 3rd great-grandparents too (same scale):

*  red for states/provinces where 1 or 2 resided at marriage.
*  amber for states/provinces where 3 or 4 resided at marriage.
*  blue for states/provinces where 5 or 6 resided at marriage.
* green for states/provinces where 7 or more resided at marriage.


Now I have 8 that resided in Massachusetts, and 4 that resided in 4 states and one province, and 4 that resided in England.  

The England folks migrated to Connecticut in 1855, and the Ontario folks migrated from New York and New Jersey.

4)  A map of where my ancestors from my parents back through the 3rd great-grandparents (62 ancestors) were born - with a scale of:

*  red for states/provinces where 1 or 2 were born.
*  amber for states/provinces where 3 or 4 were born.
*  blue for states/provinces where 5 to 8 were born.
* green for states/provinces where 9 or more were born.


On this map, out of the 62 persons from my parents back to the 3rd great-grandparents, I have 16 born in Massachusetts, 8 born in England, 7 born in New York and Pennsylvania, 6 born in Rhode Island and Connecticut, 5 in Ontario, etc.  The 1 in Quebec is my one French-Canadian ancestor who married in Ontario.

That was fun!



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5 comments:

Unknown said...

https://relativeshisandhers.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/sngf-my-visited-states-map/

Here is the link to my visited states. I love the idea of doing more for ancestors but just don't have the time tonight.

Stephanie @ CornAndCotton.com said...

I loved this! It's my first back after my (very) extended vacation from blogging about family history. What a great way to get back into on my new site. Thanks for being a constant in the community that I can come back to!

Here's my entry with several maps. I had a surprise state pop up that I really didn't expect. The obvious winners are once again Georgia and Ohio. There's a solid reason that I call myself Corn and Cotton. ;)

https://www.cornandcottongenealogy.com/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-my-visited-states-and-some-ancestors/

Thanks, Randy!
Stephanie @ Corn and Cotton Genealogy

Lisa S. Gorrell said...

I have only 4 more states to visit and some more provinces. https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2018/04/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-my-visited.html

RonNasty said...

Thanks for posting the link to that map! I've wanted to do this for a while now. In my garage I have a laminated map of Ontario and I have pins in the locations of where my parents, grandparents, ggrandparents, etc. were born.

The map also includes partial states like Minnesota, Ohio and New York, so I've got pins in there too.

Your map will be most helpful.

Janice M. Sellers said...

Here's my map:

https://www.geneamusings.com/2015/05/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-your_23.html