Anthropology

csziggy

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7. My family has much of the same history

Thu Jan 28, 2021, 12:34 AM

Jan 2021

Ireland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama.

What's really interesting is that groups of families tended to move together even if they were not (yet) connected by marriage. The Crows, the Garys, and the Newmans moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania to Virginia to South Carolina to Alabama. Some members of the families married in South Carolina, but my direct ancestors did not marry until they reached Alabama.

Same for the German families that moved to South Carolina early along, then to Tennessee then to Alabama - they moved as a group until they all settled in that one spot in Alabama between 1819 and 1825 where they settled and stayed.

It seems while people want to see new territory, they also want to take along people they were familiar with.

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