Feeling a connection to a place your ancestors lived?

[grenadinegirl]

Is this all in my own head or is this a thing that other people have experienced?

I absolutely love going on holiday to a small and quite remote island thousands of miles across the Atlantic from where I’m from. I recently started my family tree and it turns out my great great great great grandmother was born and grew up on the island! It has a population of less than 10,000.

how weird is that?

Epigenetics, I think there can def be a ‘pull’.

Coincidence. You'd have had 64 greatx3 grandparents. There are probably lots of places you like but you don't have a relative from there. (Or maybe you do but just don't know it.)

With you OP. My grandfather was born in Shropshire and I have always felt happiest and most at peace when there or even just by the Severn. It was only when doing the family history I realised "quite" how deep the roots went (record of one of DGFs ancestors in 1406 and no reason to think they weren't there well before)

Totally unexpectedly when attempting my birth fathers side I found a line of Severn boatmen from a few miles down river!