Present day, going the wrong way up the river
Walk it backwards
Start at Chris and pick a parent. The map retraces that person from the place they died to the place they were born, one stop at a time, with what happened at each. When it reaches their birthplace, their parents appear and you pick again — back through Bridgeport and Duquesne to a Carpathian village, or back through Litchfield and Belle Plaine and Kenosha County to the Eifel. It goes as far as the records go, and stops where they stop.
Or jump straight in:
drag to pan · scroll to zoom · click a dot to jump to itdrag to pan · pinch or use + − to zoom · tap a dot to jump to it
Coastlines & borders: Natural Earth (public domain)
born
lived
worked
something happened
crossed the ocean
died
the trail ends
Faint dotted lines are the people you have already walked; the map keeps them so the family’s geography builds up as you go. Where a place is marked uncertain, the note says why.