Posted on October 26, 2015
By Jena Crable
这里有一个熟悉的家谱难题：一位研究人员追踪了他/她的祖先从现今的加利福尼亚回沙尘暴时代在内布拉斯加州，密苏里州进入只是因为它是实现国家地位，并最终步行者在19世纪30年代。在这一点上，足迹已经冷淡，即使相传的家族族长是大革命时期宾夕法尼亚州的爱国者。那么，如何系谱拿起失踪的祖先在这一点上的气味？
One way to find missing ancestors is by studying the various migration routes our relatives traveled to their new homes. For instance, before 1800, between Boston, Massachusetts, and Charleston, South Carolina, our forebears followed one of a score or more of tested land and/or river routes. Our hypothetical Pennsylvanian, for example, might have traversed the Southern Road, from Philadelphia to Baltimore, where he could pick up the National Road. This would have taken him into western Maryland, briefly back into Pennsylvania, and then into western Virginia (today West Virginia), before the road leveled off in Ohio and Indiana. By the 1830s, of course, canals and railroads were beginning to compete with roads and turnpikes as the principal means of westward transportation.
如果我们所知道的最可能的路线我们的“失踪的祖先”可以从东海岸拍摄，我们就可以开始找他们，他们很有可能成立季度所谓的“馈线状态”或“停在状态上，”一段时间，由于地形，健康，资源有限等原因。纽约州西部，例如，是沿着大杰纳西路俄亥俄州新英格兰航向的一个重要站点，和肯塔基州是一个重要的“馈线状态”穿越“野道”密苏里人，因为是田纳西州的意图的人在阿肯色州。
因为你的祖先不可能消失在稀薄的空气中，你也许可以拿起他们的踪迹于一体的“饲养的状态。”
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