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The Blue Ridge Parkway has a gap named after my family. Across the road and on top of the hill is a cemetery by the same family name. I know where it is, but do not know how to get to it, but I am planning to find out. There is also a cabin where someone from our family lived near Glendale Springs, North Carolina on the parkway. The Baptist church at Glendale Springs has the graves of more recent family members. It is the church beside the church that has the Lord's Supper art work behind the pulpit.
My grandparents are buried at a small Presbyterian church near milepost 254 or 245, I can never remember which but I know where it is.
I have a couple of cousins that traveled to England to finish their work on our family line. I have never been there.
Have you ever had the chance to travel and see the cities, towns or farms where some of your ancestors lived?
For that purpose or just as a side trip?
What a great question! I only fairly recently found out where many of my ancestors lived. It's on my "to do" list. That would be quite a project. (Do you know where I could get a grant?)
Yes. On my dad's side I went to the north of England and met distant cousins who took me to the village they came from. Saw the cemetery, cried there and placed flowers on the grave. Such difficult and tragic lives--9 children dead.
I felt right at home there but of course it hasn't been that long, just 100 years ago that they came over.
On my mother's side it turns out that I'm living where they lived in the mid 1600s!!!! I didn't even know that when I moved here. Just got back from a few days in Vermont and tracked down some towns and lore up there. Went to a town some of them founded in RI but definitely want to go back and stay in wonderful Vermont and find the grave sties and old farms.
The Baptist church at Glendale Springs has the graves of more recent family members. It is the church beside the church that has the Lord's Supper art work behind the pulpit.
Church of the Frescoes. Neat place. In the basement is a columbarium where the cremains of many people are stored. The containers are no ordinary jars either, but appear to be locally made pottery
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My grandparents are buried at a small Presbyterian church near milepost 254 or 245, I can never remember which but I know where it is.
The BRP is an awesome endeavor in that it's not just a road but a preservation of much of the early life of that region. We were just up there yesterday. Found a humdinger of a route that winds from Mount Airy up to Piper's Gap There are a number of small cemeteries that are well maintained along the route. It's not unusual to sweep around a curve and pass a small lot enclosed in a fence with a family cemetery inside.
Several of the places we have lived or visited (military family) have been ancestral stomping grounds (Germany, England, Scotland, Virginia, Ohio), but by far the coolest was when we lived in the Charlottesville area of Virginia. We were tracing back in both my husband's and my lines during our time there, and discovered both sides were the same area (by descriptions of the landscape in letters within a few miles of our home) during the revolutionary period, and had done business with one-another . We have scanned copies of an agreement between the 2 families for the sale of livestock more than 300 years before we met (no direct crossing of the 2 family lines before us, but did find where my maternal grandparents' lines crossed during the same period) . We both had quite a few family members in a small rural cometary about 6 miles from our home
If something doesn't make sense, I blame autocorrect.
All of my ancestors are from "elsewhere". I have been to Waipahu, Hawai'i where my mother's maternal family is from, and where many still live. The other places I have not been to yet, but would love to visit: the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Basque Country (Spain and France), and Norway. I have been to both Spain and France, but nowhere near where my ancestors lived. So far, I've only "visited" them via Google Earth
Well, I'm from the Philly suburbs so I was already familiar with many of the locations where my ancestors lived in Philly, Bucks, and Montgomery counties. But I managed to track down the actual house some of my ancestors lived in - it's still standing, a gorgeous stone house built in the 1890s and the owner was nice enough to show us around inside. It still has a dirt floor basement, big sliding pocket doors, a grand staircase, and huge fireplaces. The kitchen has been completely modernized but that's to be expected.
I have also visited the town here in England that one of my ancestors was from before immigrating to the US - though sadly, very little of the area is the same so there's not much to see.
Well, I'm from the Philly suburbs so I was already familiar with many of the locations where my ancestors lived in Philly, Bucks, and Montgomery counties. But I managed to track down the actual house some of my ancestors lived in - it's still standing, a gorgeous stone house built in the 1890s and the owner was nice enough to show us around inside. It still has a dirt floor basement, big sliding pocket doors, a grand staircase, and huge fireplaces. The kitchen has been completely modernized but that's to be expected.
I have also visited the town here in England that one of my ancestors was from before immigrating to the US - though sadly, very little of the area is the same so there's not much to see.
I'm from Pa as well. Two of my ancestors founded churches in Montgomery and Berks Counties.
I go to Italy every other year, +/-. I see some relatives and we travel together over there. There are some I avoid (too smothering and/or dramatic).
My Dad did NOT want me to go back. He said I was a spoiled American raised in the suburbs and probably wouldn't deal well with having to take shorter showers, the country's inefficiencies, and the petty thievery (pickpockets). Boy, did I prove him wrong.
My paternal ancestor arrived Mass about 1630's. A blacksmith. His kids migrated to NJ>PA>IN>IA & MO. Many of us have tried to find where Henry came from across the pond but no luck yet. I have been around the Iowa area a couple of times for phoyo's of cemetery monuments but all branch families went on west. Maternal line ends at Crawford Co., Ohio in 1831 from Kanahwa, WV. Guess I will let someone younger research further back.
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There are a number of small cemeteries that are well maintained along the route. It's not unusual to sweep around a curve and pass a small lot enclosed in a fence with a family cemetery inside.
. We have scanned copies of an agreement between the 2 families for the sale of livestock more than 300 years before we met (no direct crossing of the 2 family lines before us, but did find where my maternal grandparents' lines crossed during the same period) 
