Thinking of traveling to an ancestor’s homeland to learn more about your heritage? Sunny Morton in a recent FamilySearch blog, Heritage Tourism: Create a Personalized Travel Experience, gives some tips for creating your own heritage tour specific to your own personal history and heritage.

Sunny suggests customizing your tour by using the following tips (which she explains in more detail in her blog):

• Try finding the exact location of your ancestor’s home or property.
• Identify other places of interest associated with your ancestor’s life.
• Look for maps from your ancestors’ time period.
• Make a list of traditional, authentic recipes you want to try.
• Read up on the history of the region.
• Consider contacting a local history expert or someone associated with an ancestral place.

With just a little research and preparation, you can enjoy your own personalized heritage tour. –Debbie Brady