Personnel question: if you know of any of your ancestors who were born between 1800 and 1850 in europe?

Question

and you know who their ancestors were, were their ancestors born in the same county, state, provinence, kingdom, etc. as them. Where on your family tree are they not born in the same place?

Answer 1

My great-grandfather was born in western Denmark in 1830.  He was the fourth generation that I know of to live in the same few square miles, before he came to America in 1862.  Looking at the church records it looks to me like most of the neighbors stayed put too.  There wasn't much happening in that part of Europe then, I think.

Answer 2

The one line I have researched that pulled this stunt was very simple to research. They had a place name, which, translated from Old English, means meadow or field of the ravens, a specific place outside of Bradford, England. They had been living there a very long time, and the church records go back to the late 1500's for nearly all of them. My great-grandfather moved to Philadelphia around 1885, breaking the chain of addiction to West Riding, Yorkshire.

Most of my other lines were fairly mobile people, and escaped Europe during religious wars and strife between 1630 and 1720. These people were often on the move.

Answer 3

My Dad's Mothers Grandfather on her Dad's side, my Grt Grt Grandfather came from Alsace Lorraine when it was German to UK.

Mum and Dad's direct lines both appear to have come over from France with the Huguenots.

Answer 4

I have family that moved from Switzerland to the Alsace (France) to Belgium, to Africa and then to England. It happens when someone emigrates, and then has children in the new country. There's no real pattern of when it happens in my tree; I just have lots of ancestors who liked to travel!