The Erie Canal and the Opening of the Midwest
Annette Burke Lyttle, CG®
Content
Welcome
1m 53s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 42s
The Erie Canal
38m 49s
Are there records?
8m 31s
Questions / answers
8m 47s
Announcements / prizes
3m 39s
Questions / answers
8m 34s
About this webinar
The Erie Canal revolutionized 19th-century travel and offered our ancestors a high-speed route from the eastern United States to the Midwest. It made settlement of the Old Northwest Territories economically possible by providing an efficient means of exporting agricultural products to the markets and ports of the east. But it was also one of the most challenging and fascinating projects ever undertaken in America.
About the speaker
Annette Burke Lyttle, CG® owns Heritage Detective, LLC, providing professional genealogical services in research, education, and writing. She speaks on a variety of genealogical topics at the internat...
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Comments (76)
My Great Great Grandmother came to Ohio from Massachusetts to Ohio, part of the way on the Erie Canal. She wrote that she left Providence, R.I., on Monday by steamer to Albany, by railroad to Utica, by canal to Buffalo, sailed on Lake Erie to Cleveland to Norwalk, Ohio by stage, then to her new home by private carriage. Were there any other forms of transportation that she didn't take on that journey?
Really enjoyed learning more about the history of the Erie Canal and available resources. I have some ancestors who lived near the canal in Schenectady. Annette is a great speaker!
My relatives didn't get to United States until 1850's but this webinar was still useful for me, as I am very ignorant about history and geography of the area and this talk has given me a better understanding of what life was like in 19th century.
A family story has my ancestors associated with the Erie Canal before moving to Baraboo Wisconsin in the 1840's. They had been Vermont and Connecticut residents for over 100 years prior to moving to New York. This talk gave me some new ideas for my search for documentation of this family story. Thank you.
Wonderfully researched and great resource tips!
Very interesting and informative.
I was hoping that I would find a way by canal to Minnesota but this presentation did not have that info. In spite of that Annette spoke clearly and with a myriad of sources. Photos and etchings were a plus!
So interesting, I learned so much! When I was in 4th grade many years ago, I learned a song, "15 years on the Erie Canal." From that I learned they used mules and that is about all I knew about the canal. Thank you!