52 Ancestors - #28 - Planning a Heritage Travel Trip

Still trying to catch up from our European river cruise! The topic for Week 28 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge was TRAVEL! How perfect is that? Of course, I couldn’t blog about our trip in real time due to poor internet connectivity. I did post every day to my Facebook account (Deborah Samuel Holman) so check there if you’d like to read about each day of our trip. Because many of you do follow me on Facebook, I’m not going to repeat myself here!

If you aren’t aware of why we took this trip, please read my post from June 2:  A Heritage Trip - Amsterdam to Austria.

I thought it might be helpful to share some of what I learned about taking a research trip for this week’s post. While the itinerary for this cruise was pretty well set by our cruise line, Grand Circle Travel, I was able to fit in some time for family research.

#52 Ancestors - #27 - Independence

Did you miss me? Or at least my weekly posts? I returned last week from our fabulous Grand Circle “Great Rivers of Europe” trip cruising from Amsterdam to Vienna, Austria. If you follow me on Facebook, you were able to keep up with our daily activities. If not, and you’re interested, I’m on Facebook as Deborah Samuel Holman.

There was some wireless connection onboard but it was so spotty between ports it made no sense to try and blog. As a result, I am four weeks behind on Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge. I haven’t missed a week in 26 weeks (a record for me!) so I don’t want to give up now.

A reminder: I am dedicating this year’s blogs to stories about my generation. Maybe not as “historically interesting” as my ancestors, but just as important. Remember: YOUR stories will be the stories your descendants tell, so WRITE THEM DOWN!!