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 1 parent. The other was born in MN, where her father was born. Her mother was born in CA.
Dad's parents were both from MO, about 150 miles south of me.
@Smersh I don't even live within 1000 miles of where I was born and grew up.
@Smersh: Where I call home is not where I live, alas. I live where I live because of calamity, not by choice. One day I do hope to return home. It would be good to.
@thedisasterautist which is pretty much the situation I was thinking when letting youse define home.
@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 *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.
@Smersh Said great grandfather lived… 10 minutes from here and said battle was 45 minutes away.
@Smersh Where o lived most of my life was within 100 miles of my parents no other family. I moved after they died. Same region of the country though.
I was the only person from my family to be born where I was, and I no longer live near there or family. I consider home to be wherever I live at the time.
@Smersh on my mother’s side, who is the only parent I am close to, I live 30 miles from the town my great grandmother’s great grandfather founded in 1842
@Smersh Parents and Grands were born a long way from here. Midwest and NY. Three great grands came over on a boat and one was born on a Sioux reservation.
Home for me is where I was born, Los Angeles.
@Smersh Does "I live on Earth" count? ; )
@Smersh One parent, who moved here after me. Had grand and great grandparents here before that.
@Smersh according to 23 and me, my ancestors were mainly from 2 different continents