Roots & RoutesA family atlas in motion
Roots & Routes — A Family Atlas in Motion, illustrated over an archival migration map

Roots & Routes — A Family Atlas in Motion

Follow the people, places, and moments that shaped the Jones, Edwards, Mitchell, and Brewer families.

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DETROIT 1954
BALTIMORE 1987
RICHMOND 1968
SAVANNAH 1928
EJ
Evelyn’s routeGeorgia → Michigan
32.0809° N · 81.0912° W
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One family · many paths

History is more than a list of names.
It's the distance between them.

Roots & Routes connects family relationships to the places and journeys that gave them meaning—supported by photographs, documents, recordings, and the people who remember.

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Real lives. One unfolding map.

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Jones branch Mitchell–Brewer branch

The family archive

Keep the proof.
Preserve the feeling.

Every route can carry its evidence: the photograph on the mantel, a marked-up census page, Grandpa's voice, or the recipe written from memory.

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PHOTOGRAPH · c. 1956
CJ

First winter in Detroit

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“The train pulled in before sunrise...”

DOCUMENT · 1940United States Census

Chatham County, Georgia

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