European Migration Resources

Sadly, many of us are quite unfamiliar with the migrations of our ancestors. All too often, we know little, if anything, about our ancestor’s migrations, especially those which occurred in the dim past.

The latest, and currently most popular, tool attempting to provide a ready response to our migration history is DNA analysis. However even DNA ethnic analysis model known historical migrations and events, as best they are able. Simply stated, without knowledge of history, we have few means by which to evaluate the accuracy of our DNA. (For those who follow my writings, I wrote on this topic earlier see: DNA & Ethnicity- Who, me?)

The following links provide an excellent basis from which to understand European Migrations as well as their geo-political context.

Below are listed the complete collection of migrartion materials made available by ManyRoads. As you may suspect, most of our resources focus on Central & Eastern Europe.

The information below is provided in a spirit of “good will” and for the purposes of information sharing and tutoring.

You need to know that:

  • not all the links (below) go to Free Sites
  • not all the sites are in “your native language”
  • we can not, and do not, vouch for what you might find on external sites.


European Historical Maps

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