Linking the history to the geography. This is not a full record of all that happened but focuses on where things happened.
Adam and Eve created in the Garden of Eden where they sinned and were expelled (Gen 1-3).
The generations after Adam (Gen 4-5).
God judged the world with a flood. Noah and his family and animals rescued, landing on Mt Ararat (Gen 6-9)
The descendent peoples of Noah: clans with geographical implications. The Canaanites descended from Canaan, son of Ham. Their territory stretched from Sidon to Gaza and to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboyim, as far as Lasha. (Gen 10 esp. vv.18-19)
The Semites (descendents of Shem) lived in the region from Mesha towards Sephar, in the eastern hill country. (Gen 10:21-32)
The Tower of Babel, in Shinar. The Lord scattered the people over all of th earth. (Gen 11:1-19)
Terah took Abram, Sarai and Lot from Ur of the Chaldeans to Caanan but settled in Harran. (Gen 11:27-32)
Abram, Sarai and Lot travelled to the great tree of Moreh at Shechem where God spoke and Abram built an altar. They then went to the hills between Bethel and Ai and built an altar. They continued towards the Negev. (Gen 12:12:1-9)
Abram went to Egypt to escape famine (Gen 12:10-20).
Abram et al travelled through the Negev to the place between Bethel and Ai (Gen 13:1-4).
Abram and Lot separated. Lot chose the plain of the Jordan, living among the cities of the plain and pitching his tent near Sodom. Abram lived in Canaan. God promised him all the land he could see. He settled near the great tree of Mamre at Hebron and built an altar there. (Gen 13:5-18)
The kings of Shinar, Ellasar, Ellam and Goyim defeated the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboyim and Bela (Zoar) in the Valley of Siddim (the Dead Sea Valley). They carried off Lot and his family and possessions. (Gen 14:1-12)
Abram pursued these armies as far as Dan and then as far as Hobar, north of Damascus. He recovered all of the people and good. (Gen 14:13-16)
The king of Sodom met Abram in the Valley of Shaveh (the King's Valley). He asked for the people but offered Abram all of the goods. Abram refused saying that he would not be able to say, "I made Abram rich". (Gen 14:17-24)
Melchizadech, king of Salem, brought bread and wine and blessed Abram. Abram gave him a tenth of everything. (Gen 14:18-20) [Does the fact that this is inserted in the previous acocunt indicate that this also happened in the Valley of Shaveh?]
God promised Abram a descendent and made a covenant with him promising him the land from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates (Gen 15).
Sarai offered Abram Hagar who became pregnant and then despised Sarai. Hagar fled to a spring in the desert, hear the road to Shur. An angel told her to return and said her son was to be named Ishmael and her descendents would be too numerous to number. The well is called Beer Lahai Roi and was between Kadesh and Bered (Gen 16)
God made a covenant with Abram, changing his name to Abraham and saying that he would be the father of many nations and giving him the whole land of Canaan as an everlasting possession. The sign of the covenant was to be circumcision. Sarai's name was changed to Sarah and God promised her a son, Isaac, and through him she would become the mother of many nations. (Gen 17)
God appeared to Abraham while he sat in his tent at the great tree of Mamre (Hebron). He offered hospitality to three men who anouned that, in a year, Sarah would have a son. Sarah laughed then lied about it. The Lord told Abraham that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was great. Abraham pleaded that the cities be spared for the sake of a ffew righteous people (Gen 18).
Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed. Lot and his wife and two daughters escape, fleeing to Zoar. Lot's life looked back and was turned to a pillar of salt. Lot and his daughters then settled in the mountains. (Gen 19:1-29)
Lot's daughters got him drunk and then slept with him. One gave birth to Moab, the father of the Moabites and the other gave birth to Ben-Ammi, the father of the Ammorites (Gen 19:30-38).
Abraham moved into the Negev, living between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar allowing Abimilech, king of Gerar, to take Sarah as his wife. Abimilech, afraid because God confrinted him about Sarah (even though he had taken her innocently and had not touched her) gave Abraham sheep, cattle and slaves and whatever part of his land Abraham liked. (Gen 20)
Sarah have birth to Isaac. Sarah demanded that hagar and Ishmael be banished. They wandered in the Desert of Beersheba. They later lived in the Desert of Paran. (Gen 21:1-21)
Abraham and Abimilek swore an oath at Beersheba. Abimelek retrned to the land of the Philistines. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba and staying in the land of the Philistines a long time. (Gen 21:22-34)
As commanded, Abraham took Isaac to a mountain in the region of Moriah to sacrifice him but God intervened and provided a ram. They returned to Beersheba.(Gen 22)
Sarah died at Kiriath Arba (Hebron). Abraham asked for the cave of Machpelah, in Ephron's field, near Mamre (near? Hebron). (Gen 23)
Abraham asked his servant to swear that Isaac would not have a wife from among the Canaanites but that the servant would go to Abraham's country and people to find a wife for Isaac. Isaac was not to be taken to Abraham's country. God had promised his descendents Canaan. The servant went to Aram Naharaim, to the town of Nahor and met Rebekah at a spring. Rebekah was the daughter of Bethuel (the Aramean from Paddan Aram), the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother. Rebekah returned with the servant. (Gen 24:1-61)
Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev. Out in a field, he saw Rebekah approaching. He took her into his mother's (Sarah's) tent and married her. (Gen 24:62-67)
Abraham had other sons by a second wife, Keturah. He left all he had to Isaac but gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them to the land of the east. (Gen 25:1-6)
Abraham died at 175 and was buried in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre i.e. with Sarah. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi (Gen 25:1-11)
The descendents of Ishmael lived "in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt as you go towards Ashur" (Gen 25:17-18)
Rebekah gave birth to Jacob and Esau. Jacob bought Esau's birthright (Gen 25:19-34)
Because of a famine, Isaac went to Abimelek, king of the Philistines, in Gerar. God reaffirmed the promise of the land to his descendents and told him not to go to Egypt. Isaac stayed in Gerar. Isaac planted crops there and became very wealthy, causing the Philistines to envy him and block up his wells. Abimelek told him to move away so he settled in the Valley of Gerar. He dug the wells of Esek and Sitnah, Rehoboth. From there he went to Beersheba, where God appeared to him and he built an altar. He pitched his tent there and his servants dug a well (Shibah). He made a treay with Abimelek. (Gen 26)
Jacob stole Esau's blessing from their father, Isaac. Rebekah advised Jacob to flee to Laban in Harran. (Gen 27:1-45)
Rebekah did not want Jacob to marry a Hittite so Isaac sent him to Bethuel in Paddan Aram. (Gen 27:46-28:5)
On his way from Beersheba to Paddan Aram, Jacob stopped "at a certain place" and dreamed of a ladder with angels ascending and descending. God promised him the land on which he lay, and many descendents. He promised to bring him back to this land. Jacob understood the place to be "the house of God, the gate of heaven". He set up a pillar and named the place Bethel. The city had previously been called Luz.) Jacob promised that the Lord would be his God (if the Lord looked after him) and the stone pillar would be God's house. (Gen 28:10-22)
Jacob headed to Paddan Aram. At a well he met Rachel. He worked for Laban for 7 years so as to marry rachel but was tricked into marrying Leah. He worked another 7 years for Rachel. Leah gave birth to Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. (Gen 29)
Rachel gave Jacob Bilhah who gave birth to Dan and Naphtali. Leah gave Jacob Zilpah who hgave birth to Gad and Asher. Leah gave birth to Issachar and Zebulun. Rachel then gave birth to Joseph. (Gen 30:1-24)
Jacob sought Laban's permission to return home and, after some trickery, God told Jacob to return. God referred to Himself as "the God of Bethel" (Gen 31:13). Jacob fled, crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead. (Gen 30:25-31-21)
Laban pursued Jacob, cathcing up with him in the hill country of Gilead but God told him not to say anything to Jacob. They remonstrated with each other and set up a heap of stones and a pillar as a witness between them. They agreed to stay on their side of the pillar and not to harm each other. Laban called the heap "Jegar Sahadutha"; Jacob called it Galeed. It was also called Mizpah. They then separated, Laban going home. (Gen 31:22-55)
Jacob continued on his way. Angels appeared at a place he then named Mahanaim. (Gen 32:1-2)
Jacob sent messengers to Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. The messengers returned saying that Esau was coming with 400 men. He divided his people into camps and sent gifts to Esau. During the night he took his wives, servants and sons and crossed the ford of Jabbok. At the ford, Jacob wrestled with "a man" who changed jacon's name to Israel. Jacob named the place Peniel/Penuel. (Gen 32:3-32)
Jacob met, and was reconciled to, Esau in the Jabbok valley. Esau then returned to Seir. Jacob went to Sukkoth (Gen 33:1-17). The next verses (18-20) though say that he camped within sight of Shechem, buying a field where he pitched his tent. He set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.
Jacob's daughter. Dinah, was raped by Shechem. Jacob and his sons then negotiated with the men and tricked them into being circumsized as the cost for Shechem to marry Dinah. However, while they were still in pain, Simeon and Levi (and later all of the brothers, attacked and looted the city. [Presumably this city was Shechem.] (Gen 34)
God then told Jacob to return to Bethel and build an altar there. Jacob named the place El Bethel. Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel, the place being named Allon Bakuth. God appeared, changed Jacob's name to Israel and again renewed the promise of the land. Jacob set up a stone pillar and named the place Bethel. (Gen 35:1-15)
They moved on from Bethel. Approaching Ephrath (Bethlehem) Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin. She was buried in Bethlehem and Jacob set a pillar over her tomb. (Gen 35:16-20)
Jacob/Israel moved to Migdal Eder. (Gen 35:21-22)
Jacob went home to his father, Isaac, at Mamre (near Kiriath Arba i.e. Hebron). (Gen 35:27-29)
Esau took his people to the land of Seir (Edom) since Canaan could not support both him and Jacob. (Gen 36:6-8)
Joseph's brothers were grazing their flocks near Shechem when Jacob sent Joseph to see that all was well with them, specifically to the Valley of Hebron. The had moved on to Dothan, where Joseph found them. (Gen 37:12-17)
Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead to Egypt, passed by and bought Joseph. (Gen 37:25)
Judah went to Adullam and married the daughter of a Canaanite (Shua). She gave birth to 3 sons, the last being born at Kezib. Judah got Tamar as a wife for his first-born, Er. When Er died she was given to his second-born who also died. To avoid another death, he didn't give her to his third-born. After his wife had died, Judah went to Timnar. At Enaim, on the way to Timnah, Tamar disguised herself as a prostitute and slept with Judah. (Gen 38)
Jospeh in Egypt. (Gen 39-41) Jospeh's brothers went from Canaan to Egypt seeking food (Gen 42-44). Jospeh revealed himself and instructed his brothers to bring their father and family. They would live in the region of Goshen. (Gen 45 esp. v.10). Jacob and all his family travelled to Egypt. On the way, at Beersheba, Jacob offered sarifices to God and God spoke to him. (Gen 46:1-7).
They setteld in Goshen andJoseph was reunited with jacob there (Gen 46:28-34). Jacob's family were introduced to Pharaoh. It is implied that Goshen was in the region of Rameses (Gen 47 esp. v.11, 27).
Jacob asked Joseph to swear that he would not be buried in Egypt but with his father (i.e. in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre, near Hebron) (Gen 47:28-31)
Jacob (referring to God appearing to him at Luz (Bethel) and to the land as an everlasting inheritance (Gen 28:10-22)) said that Joseph's sons, Manasseh and Ephraim were to be considered as sons of Jacob and given an inheritance in the land. (Gen 48:1-7). Jacob referred back to burying Rachel by the road, a little distance from Ephrath (Bethlehem) (Gen 48:7)
Jacob blessed Ephraim and Manasseh. He gave to Joseph one more "ridge of land" than to his brothers, the ridge he had taken from the Amorites with his sword and bow (Gen 48:21-22). ["ridge of land" is the same as "Shechem".)
Jacob blessed his sons (Gen 49). He again instructed that he was to be buried with his father sin the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre (near Hebron). Abraham had bought it from Ephron the Hittite. There Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Leah had all been buried (Gen 49:29-32).
Joseph, and a retinue, went to the cave of Machpelah (near Hebron) and buried Jacob there. On the way, they stopped at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan where they observed 7 days of mourning. That place was called Abel Mizraim (Gen 50:1-14 esp. vv10-11).
Joseph expressed his confidence that God would give them the land and asked that his bones be carried there. Joseph died. (Gen 50:22-26)