For sometime now, I’ve been interested in taking my family to Romania, my grandfather’s country before he and his parents left to settle down in our Capital District area.

But how to start  to figure out where to specifically go?

Check out Caren Osten Gerszberg’s interesting article on travel designed to learn more about your own individual family tree. More and more of us are using genealogical websites for research and then traveling to where ever the results lead.

Ms.  Gerszberg  writes about her own trip to Romania, and she reports that tourism sites such as those in Ireland (thegatheringireland.com) and Scotland  have caught on to the interest in heritage seeking travel.

Ms. Gerszberg also provides tips such as,  if you are interested in traveling to a non-English speaking country, you could enlist the help of local bilingual guide.

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