Virtual Family History Escape Rooms

Note: This article by Miles Meyer was originally published in the Miles’ Genealogy Tips blog site and is used with the author’s permission.


Hello everyone. We have been preparing for Hurricane Isaias this weekend and now it is a tropical storm. So what do you do when you are waiting on a storm that doesn’t come? You catch up on some projects that you have been planning on doing for a few months.

You might have noticed the series of Family History Scavenger Hunts that I included here during June. Since then I had been wanting to do some family history themed virtual escape rooms. So, yesterday and today I wrote up the first two. The links are posted below. Each of these escape rooms lead you to discover facts about an individual through searches in various records. Correct and incorrect answers take you down different paths and some may result in the end of the game. The ultimate goal is to escape the game by answering as many questions correctly as you can.
As I develop more virtual escape rooms I will add them below.
I hope you have fun exploring these virtual family history escape rooms. Please provide feedback if you find any problems or have suggestions. Feel free to use these and my scavenger hunt events for your own activities.

Miles Meyer