You’ve found the places on a map where your ancestral families used to live. Have you really tried to visualize how far apart those places are? Would it have been relatively easy for two people from those villages to meet? How long would it probably have taken to travel between the two locations? Would the terrain have made the trip easier or more difficult? How populated was the area? People eight miles apart in a rural area may be more likely to meet than people eight miles apart in a more urban setting–unless they met through church or some other social means.

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