The lucky numbers don’t mean much to me, but the “You will always be surrounded by true friends” fortune cookie fortune I found on an isolated bit of pavement at a local lake struck me as ironic.
It was all by itself.
That reminded me that while many of our ancestors settled in areas where they knew people from “back home,” some did not. It is always worth looking at those people who interacted with our ancestor in a new area to see if there’s some connection they had in an area of previous residence. However sometimes there was no familial or friendship connection to people in the new area. Some people just struck off in an entirely new locations without human connection from the past.
It is easier to do this if the person knows the predominant language spoken in the area. If they do not speak the native language, it helps if there is a significant population in the area that speaks their language. But sometimes people to manage to flourish in an area with connections from the past living there. Or they at least manage to reproduce and eventually leave descendants to research them.
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