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Ancestral Hometowns
The towns, cities or country sides can be where we grew up with its memories but not necessarily our family ancestral hometowns. It could be your paternal grandfather’s hometown, where he and his parents and grandparents lived for decades. The maternal side of the family could have lived in a different region or area.
Over the last 50 years with the increased movement of individual families to new locations, it is harder to find generations of the same family in the same community for years. However, learning about these ancestral hometowns can yield wonderful dividends in preparing your family history.
Actually visiting the town or farm region where your great grandparents lived and worked allows you to step back in time, to walk where they walked. There can also be family stories or lore about certain locations such as a general store, a theater, a church, a river, a park, etc., that held special meaning to your ancestors. Most important could be a visit to the cemeteries in the area. Many relatives might be buried there with new information offered on the headstones. By actually seeing first hand these varied places, if they still exist, makes those family stories appear in living color.
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