Places of Origin

We can take our Ancestral Migrations Map and flip it around to see a view of our family’s overseas places of origin. Most of our family originated in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland…

This is a partial list focussed on the family branches we have spent the most time investigating–to show all of our ancestors’ places of origin, even just the ones we are sure about, would require many pages.

A few of our ancestors originated from Germany…

Every one of these people must have struggled, if not agonized, over their decision to leave their homeland to come to the new world, usually never to return. We owe our existences to the fact that each and every one of them decided to go through with it.