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American Migration Patterns

Article by Beverly Whitaker.

Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Migration

Early American Trails and Roads

Descriptions of 18 of the major early roads: The Boston Post Road; Braddock's Road; The California Trail; The Fall Line Road; The Federal Road; The Great Wagon Road; The King's Highway; The Mohawk (Iroquois) Trail; The Mormon Trail; The Natchez Trace; The National Road; The Oregon Trail; The Pennsylvania Road; The Santa Fe Trail; The Trail of Tears; The Upper Road; The Wilderness Road; Zane's Trace.

Genealogy Professional Familyworks American Migration: Marcy Price Genealogist

Specializing in genealogy research using Migration Trails.

Historic American Roads, and Migration Routes

This website identifies over 400 historic American roads, trails and migration routes. Each has as brief description which may also include links to a topographic map, and/or images of the route. This site also includes approximately 40 web-pages specifically designed for those who seek to follow their ancestor’s migration journeys.

Historic trails and roads in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In Motion: The African American Migration Experience

From the trans-Atlantic slave trade through the Great Migrations up to the modern African immigrations to the United States.

Lineages.com - First Steps, Colonial Routes to Kentucky and Tennessee

By Johni Cerny, B.S., F.U.G.A. Details routes from Philadelphia and Maryland, from Virginia and North Carolina, and other routes west into Kentucky and Tennessee.

Migrations.org

MigrationTrails.com

Who Traveled the Trails? and a migration trail map.

Names on Independence Rock

Wyoming. A partial listing from 1930.

National Oregon/California Trail Center

Montpelier, Idaho.

Roots & Routes

A heritage travel and public education website, including migration maps.

The American West - Development & History

The Overland Trail

Trails West

Map of early western migration trails and descriptions.

US Migration Trails and Roads | Learn | FamilySearch.org

Chronological List of Major Historic Trails and Roads Used in the Settlement of the United States.