Is where you call home within 100 miles (160.9 km) of the birthplace of your ancestors?
I'll let you define what you consider home. It can be: where you currently live, where you spent most of your life or even where you lived during the best / most formative years of your (or another's) life.
@Smersh Yep - the origin of my surname goes back to <NAME> County in 1732.
@EnochianEntropy as in you're generation 7,842 in <NAME> County?
@Smersh We’re no longer in <NAME> County, but it’s across the mountains from here. So yeah, my line has been here a while.
@Smersh The surname was important to figure out as it is mildly maligned in the area, so disputing some of the legends about it was important. The family name predates the arrival of that particular maligned contingent, so it’s not the origin point of it.
@Smersh I’ve also spent a fair amount of time with another branch of the family, my mother’s family, in <NAME> County, but I haven’t researched that name as much.
@EnochianEntropy coming from a seemingly perennial line of second sons heading west (young man), this is wild to imagine!
@Smersh Said great grandfather lived… 10 minutes from here and said battle was 45 minutes away.
@Smersh *shrug* It’s well established that my great grandfather was a Confederate Vet and also that I think the Confederacy is trash.
I’ve got roots here, and I like it. The land sings to me through time and blood.