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Liking for a place, that you had no connection to
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Lynda ~ | Report | 25 Mar 2015 11:15 |
or thought you didn't, until you started your tree. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 25 Mar 2015 12:05 |
I moved loads of times both as a child, and as an adult, before starting my family tree. As far as I was aware, mum came from Southampton and dad was of Cornish stock, but lived in both Cornwall and Devon. |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 25 Mar 2015 12:05 |
we used to go to Hutton le hole and every time |
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JemimaFawr | Report | 25 Mar 2015 12:50 |
I am beginning to wonder whether there IS a such a thing as GENETIC MEMORY. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 25 Mar 2015 13:02 |
I saw a photo of a castle in eastern Europe when I was about 12 and immediately felt a pull to go there. I saw the 'iron curtain' literally and often thought it was another world beyond it, mysterious and fascinating. I learned that my grandfather's name was anglicised and his parents came from what is now Lithuania. I visited the Czech Republic not long after the Velvet Revolution and would like to go to the cities my ancestors originated from (although they have been much altered under years of Communism). I have always been drawn to London, and knew of no family connection there until I started my research. |
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DIZZI | Report | 25 Mar 2015 13:25 |
FOR SOME REASON I ALWAYS LOVED BRIGHTON BUT NEVER |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 25 Mar 2015 13:35 |
So it looks like some of us do have a pull to where our ancestors resided then, although I do have a big pull towards Rome. I can get about there, like I can in London, it has always felt so familiar to me, although I have yet to find ancestors who lived there, but I'm sure I must have, can even speak the lingo when I'm there, but forget most of it on my return to Blighty, strange but true :-D |
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JemimaFawr | Report | 25 Mar 2015 13:36 |
That's very sad Dizzi :-( <3 |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 25 Mar 2015 14:07 |
Dizzi, I had a similar situation. At my gran's funeral in 1993, I saw my great uncle Jim for the first time in 30 years. I asked him where he was living....... |
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Family Whispers | Report | 25 Mar 2015 18:01 |
When I was young I lived near a small village in Essex. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 25 Mar 2015 18:21 |
LA - that's amazing - and lovely too :-D |
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Denburybob | Report | 25 Mar 2015 20:37 |
I keep feeling this "pull" to the pub. |
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UzziAndHerDogs | Report | 25 Mar 2015 20:47 |
Not for me as my pull has always been for the coast preferably Cornwall /Devon. I´ve lived in both aswell as Brighton Southend Yarmouth. My family so far are Yorkie born and bricklayers/stone masons, sickle and sythe makers. or they are Cumberland |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 25 Mar 2015 20:55 |
:-D :-D@Bob |
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UzziAndHerDogs | Report | 25 Mar 2015 21:01 |
I also had a pull for the pub Bob ..so bought my own and then found out that Granny was a barmaid also. Loved my Granny <3 |
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