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I live in the south east corner and have no links this far east.....Not easy for hands-on research.
Dad was born in Portsmouth, - his Mum in Hampshire, his Dad in Sussex.Their families can be tracked back in those counties.

Mum was from Glamorgan, but her grandparents had been born in Herefordshire, where I can track the family back in the same village for many generations.

Gwyn

My family are from....Sussex, Kent, Essex (and one random Norfolk link im tryin to work out too lol)
We currently live in Lincolnshire.
So i guess we moved a fair way.
Lou x

How far am I from home?? Too far is what.

Born in Cardiff but my "home" is Froncysyllte/Llangollen/Trefor area of north Wales (my father's 'home'). Spent many summers there as a child and emotionally I am still strongly drawn to that area.
My mother was born in Weymouth, Dorset, moved around a lot as my grandfather was a naval surgeon then latterly a general practitioner. My mother lived for 18 years in London (Finchley) and her mother remained there for another 10 years.
Now I am in Ontario, Canada, emigrated as a child with parents from Cardiff.
My roots are over the pond. Paternal line includes Wales and Shropshire (formerly Salop). Maternal includes England as above, plus Plymouth area, Cornwall, Eire, Belfast, Dundee. So I am truly Heinz 57 variety.
mary

I live about 14 thousand miles away from my birthplace and from my forebears homes lol.

When I did live in the UK, I was still hundreds of miles from my family roots - we move around alot!

MaryMc

I live in Ireland in the midlands. Both my parents came from Dublin, 80 miles away. My OH's family has lived in the same place since 1800. We build our house next door and two of my sons live within one mile.
However all my ancestors on both sides of the family came from Scotland. My paternal side came from Dunbar south of Edinburgh and my maternal side came from Glasgow / Lanarkshire. They returned to Scotland so I should have 3rd or 4th cousins there. lol

I live at least 200 miles from various members of my family and where I was born.

But by a quirk of fate less than 8 miles from my great grandparents.

My maternal side originates from Hampshire and (possible) Oxfordshire, while my Paternal family hail from Suffok and Wiltshire, getting together in London. I live in Norfolk.

So...quiet a way lol

I live within a mile of where my paternal grandmother and grandfather were born, and the GG and GGG grandparents on my Dad's side.

My dads family come from Sussex and Kent and my mum came from Lancashire. I live in Hertfordshire and ive only been doing my family tree for 6 months. My dads family moved around a lot, ag labs, went where the work was.

Yvonne

I'm practically sitting on my roots!! I live in the same village as my 3 x great gandparents were born in over 200 years ago. Perhaps we're not a very adventurous lot!

Sherrie

Hello Sally, I live very close to where a huge amount of my mum's ancestors came from, mostly all in the same and two neighbouring counties. I'm also not far from London where another big proportion come from.

But then I have a lot in other parts of the UK and abroad so.....

I find that everywhere I go to see and get to know because ancestors came from or lived there feels a bit like home:)

I am Midlands born of Geordie parents, Mum being from Newcastle on Tyne and Dad from Jarrow, Co. Durham. My maternal grandfather was from North Yorkshire but moved to Northumberland where he married my maternal grandmother. Her family were Northumbrians for generations as far back as I can go. Dad's family were Jarrow for several generations but previously from Lancashire. Obviously I spent many many holidays as a child visiting relatives in Newcastle anfd must confess to feeling quite emotional when I cross Tyne Bridge - it really does feel like 'coming home' How daft from someone born two hundred miles away in the Midlands !!

Yes weired isn't it how some places you go you feel at home. At 15 I worked in Warwickshire and on the train down we passed through Tamworth. I had never been there but I remember feeling drawn to the place. My mothers family all came from that area I found out 4 years ago. Went to work in Lincolnshire found that my great great grand father came from near where I worked and agaIn felt at home. Always loved the sound of the forest of dean, my fathers family came from Gloucestershire and the close area around. Married and came to live here found that my fathers mothers family had lived here back to 1600s. Think we have still got our homing instincts. Elaine.

I moved 28 times in as many years until I moved here. Thought I was the first of my family to live in Winchester - then gran told me she lived here when she was 'In Service' in 1925!!
I felt really at home in Cornwall - my dad's family came from there - for generations!!
Mum's family came from Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Suffolk. My daughters were born in Essex - but only about 3 miles from where mum's Suffolk ancestors came from.

I lived on the Borders for a while - only to find my cornish ancestors had lived just down the road for a generation when the tin mines closed in Cornwall - the next generation moved back down to Cornwall.

I'm back in Hampshire now, but moved here from the New Forest where some of my mum's lot came from. There are still plenty of people there bearing the surnames of my mum's ancestors.

maggie

My Dad's side were Buckinghamshire folk, mainly a little village called Gawcott just outside Buckingham and there are still some of them there.
My Mum's side are mainly from Norfolk and Suffolk, and lots of us still around that area, I am Norwich born and bred, altho moved away a couple of times, ended up back here/

Sally, where are you in Norfolk, pm if you don't want to say on here.
Lizx

On my mum's side ..................
Grandfathers family came from Stonehouse, Gloucestershire which is 112 miles from where I live

Grandmothers family came from Filkins,Oxfordshire which is 132 miles away.

The two family's only lived 40 miles apart in the early/mid 1700

Very funny Dave! :D
It seems to me that quite a few people have close geographical links to their roots still, which with the way we can move about these days is pretty amazing. I find it most 'spooky' when people move and end up living close to their ancestors homes without realising it till they start this family tree lark.

well how many thousands of miles is th U.K. from Australia, that's how far i am from my ancestors roots... My dad's parent's are from Ross-On-Wye and my Mum's Dad is from Ireland and his Dad from somewhere in UK... I hope to come visit next year and meet some Uncles and Aunts that my Dad never knew about...

about 10 miles been to see my Mum since Tuesday, came back here not home today
Davex

I've always lived in east London, and my parents and grandparents lived in the east end. Before that most of them were from Russia, so I'm a fair distance from my roots!