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Heritage Travel 101: How to Begin to Plan a Heritage Trip
It was a handwritten map. One my new-to-me cousin drew it out on the back of his mother’s lunch menu. If I followed the map I would drive past past the river my grandmother and her cousins swam in. I would find the church where the family attended for generations were buried. I would find the home place and stand where my great great grandparents lived and worked. Scuffletown, Virginia. Not exactly a tourist destination, but a destination my family history took me. Heritage travel , also know as heritage tourism, is a fast growing area of the travel industry. The rise in DNA testing and the growth of genealogy…