Greetings to all new and regular visitors.
If you've been here before, you know that ROOTS & ROUTES offers:
If this is your first visit, please take a moment and read ABOUT US. We've grown rapidly over the last six years, and a much-needed restructuring is underway. As always, we welcome your comments and ideas.
WHAT'S NEW
The season for family celebrations and reunions is upon us. When your loved ones gather, be sure to
take time to write down those great stories and resolve to start that genealogy database. New digital video
and audio recording devices make oral history much easier. Get started by consulting the oral history resources
in our ROOTS/Family History section. And plan a family outing to solve some of those personal history mysteries.
Using GPS on your laptop, you can locate remote cemeteries without stopping a dozen times to ask directions.
Preservation of our national heritage knows no season. Our highlight is on California's endangered missions, truly among North America's great treasures. Visit, and, if you can, join the mission to save the missions!
Of course, it's always time to TRAVEL NOW! For fresh ideas of where to stroll through history this fall, consult our list of free, online Walking Tours.
IN THE WORKS
Be sure to visit our Promotions page.
We're now accepting classified listings for many history-related products
and services as well as larger graphic displays. Let us know if you'd like to reach our audience of history buffs - and better yet, offer them
a discount! (We'll deduct an equivalent percentage from the cost of your listing!) Best of all, your sponsorship directly supports our
successful Internship program. (Our current interns are at work updating their page.)
We're planning a major reconstruction of TRAVEL NOW! A database with an interactive map, it will combine heritage theme tours (including many we presently have online) with overlays of migration trails, architectural/culture areas, and major genealogy archives. Our heritage partners will receive free listings while local chambers of commerce and tourism boards will be invited to list their resources nearby. An interactive trip planner will help users keep track of their choices and add maps and walking tours. While we plan this change, we will be updating links to the new database, and may not have time to update them on the existing page. So please bear with us through this hopefully brief transition. And send us your ideas for how the perfect interactive heritage travel planner ought to work!
Be sure to Read our Mail. We welcome your letters, suggestions and contributions. We're particularly eager to have more ROOTS Town Connections links and original stories. This is one of the most visited sections of the website, so your content will not go unread!
If you enjoy ROOTS & ROUTES, we hope you'll come back often - and help us publicize the website in any way you can. Thanks to your support through links, newsletters, notes and emails to friends, our weekly "hits" count recently topped 80,000!