Is it geofeasible?

Question

Maybe I should say, is geofeasible even a word? As a cartographer, I should probably know that.

This is just a thought to ponder, along with things like is the mother of child bearing age. Could these people have traveled or moved between these places then?

As I was researching ancestors who lived along the Erie Canal, which traversed 350 miles between Albany and Buffalo, New York, it was interesting to read that when the Erie Canal finally opened in 1825 this route could be traversed much faster, traveling this 350 miles in only 5 days.

It sort of boggles the mind to consider the travels of some of our ancestors, and the conditions that they must have faced.

Comments

It absolutely is Kay! Thanks for posting this,  

Geo Feasible is a term in geology?

Mags

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It would be geography, not geology. :-)

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Yes! How can those geologist take ownership of "Geo"?! I say we start using it. Mags

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Geology is the earth's structure.

Geography is the study of anything in relation to the earth. It was my major in college. At the time, I didn't think I was interested in cultural geography, but as I've starting doing genealogy I find that I am. A study of people, where they lived, where they moved, what was their occupation, etc.

Answer 1

Interesting question Kay. Sometimes you have to think out of the box to see is something is "geofeasible". One situation I have been concerned about in my ancestry is a young lady who moved from Aberdeenshire to Coldstream and gave birth to an illegitimate child (my great grandfather) in 1861. She married 3 years later in Northumberland and her husband gave the boy his name and raised him. They are all buried together and it was not until I started researching that any questions arose. I could find no indication that the man she married could have been in the same social circle or geographical location at the time of conception, so I have been looking for another candidate for biological father. However, I have recently discovered that her sister married a man geographically close and with the same occupation as the man she later married. The timing of the sister's wedding would make it geofeasible that the subsequent "step-father" is actually the biological parent, so I am having to think again. An interesting little puzzle that will hopefully be solved by DNA analysis.