My highfalutin title simply designates touristic travel excursions motivated by family-history interests. So, a good example of a
genea-pilgrimage (as I shall call them) was the recent visit of my niece
Indiya to places in northern London, described in my blog post entitled
Looking back on a London century [
display]. And I hope I’m not being pretentious in imagining that the publication of my two family-history books,
A Little Bit of Irish and
They Sought the Last of Lands, might end up increasing the popularity of genea-pilgrimages in the context of my family and relatives.
Obviously, since neither of my books has been written in the spirit of a tourist guide, the steps involved in moving from the books to down-to-earth excursion plans would necessitate some work. Well, I’ve been thinking that maybe I have the personal responsibility of facilitating this work in one way or another. After all, I’ve had a minimum of experience in the domain of tourist guidebooks, through my
Great Britain Today [Jeune Afrique, Paris, 1978].
Let’s refer to such an excursion plan as a
Genea-Pilgrimage Guide (
GPG). Maybe I’ll place such GPGs in the webspaces that have housed, up until now, the PDF files of the chapters of my family-history books.
