Puritian Great Migration

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This is just a question out of curiosity how many people here have a ancestor that were part of the Puritan Great Migration but  they themselves were  not born  in the  Americas.. I have several PGM ancestors but I was not born in the Americas. The descendants of my PGM ancestors now reside over three continents.
in The Tree House by Living Anonymous G2G6 Mach 3 (35.6k points)
thanks for the replies, I was just curious and it seems a few of us are in the minority here, some of the descendants of my PGM ancestors after nearly 300 years returned to England, via Canada, and  then Australia. My ancestor that left the USA in the early 1800,s was not by choice, she was only a child, her mother had died and she was 5, her younger brother was 3, they were separated, she went to her maternal relatives in Canada, while her brother went to some of his paternal relatives in Ohio. I don't think the siblings ever saw each other again. Her son went to Australia chasing dreams of gold, found a wife but died in a mine accident. From Australia some ended back in England  in a full circle.

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This would be the Great Puritan Migration was several decades 1620 to 1640 the height peak about 1629/30?

Huge number of referenced websites shown by the search term <great puritan migration>

More to the point how many of the active 2500 or so PM at WT can trace their lines back to 1620/40?
by Susan Smith G2G6 Pilot (652k points)
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some of my ancestors were

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Goodrich-174

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marvin-11

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steele-41

but I was not born in North America, so how many other descendants of the PGM are also not citizens of a north American country like the USA or Canada.

Ya, you're not alone. I was born in France and I knew my father was Canadian, but I still had a surprise when I received my DNA results. Did you know that New England is an ethnicity!  

I'm still tracing my tree that far back, and I don't have a final count yet, but it turns out that my mother's tree leads me there too.  So far, the couple that appear most frequently are Edward and Rebecca Bangs. I'm descended from their son Jonathan, and daughters Rebecca Sparrow, Hannah Doane, Bethia Hall and Apphia Atwood. I also repeat at John and Abigail Dunham, Nicholas and Constance Snow, and each of the first three wives of Gov. Thomas Prence.

I did not know that New England is an ethnicity, I don't think of my New England ancestors as an ethnic group, since their ancestors mostly came from England. As for ethnicity for myself, I class myself as half English, 1/4 Scottish, 1/4 Irish with smatterings of Welsh. the English part  is probably a mixture of Saxons, Celts, Normans and Vikings, but have not done any tests.
AncestryDNA’s ethnicity reports include groups like New England Settlers, New York Settlers, Pioneers, etc. in their ethnicity reports, but they’re really Regional Cultural Groups as described by David Hackett Fischer in “Albion’s Seed, and other cultural historians.

They noticed that the early families who were attracted to settle in various regions of what became the 13 original  US states tended to have gravitated towards places where people they knew had already settled and they brought their distinctive ways of speaking, cooking, their religious beliefs, and other shared cultural values with them.  New England settllers tended to be Puritans, Royalist refugees from the English Civil War clustered in Maryland (Catholics) and Virginia (Church of England), new York started as a Dutch colony, Pennsylvanians tended to be Quakers, and the pioneer settlers of the Appalchian region tended to be Scots-Irish Presbyterians and Borderers.  Later arrivals tended to also settle down in Places where the dominant culture was similar to their own (German and Swiss Mennonites and Amish blended well with the Quakers, while Palatine refugees from Germany and Huguenots from France got along well with the Dutch settlers of New York, etc.)

Since each of these regions was both geographically and culturally distant from the others, people tended to marry within their own regional group.  They even tended to stick together as they migrated West - New Englanders, New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians into the midwest, Appalachian pioneers into Arkansas, Missouri, and eventually Northern Mexico (now Texas).

AncestryDNA, by putting DNA evidence together with genealogical information has been able to identify particulr shared genetic patterns that tend to show up in the descendants of each of these population groups and includes it in their ethnicity reports.

yes enlightenedWonder where that would situate me? BTW, Anin/nonymous, that's a nice way to track the migration and ethnicity questions in "one hand".  This adds something to the modern DNA tracking (I think) and the older version by blood type grouping (A, B, O, AB). So, if in the main (that famous 67% of the Bell Curve) this was the typical pattern of migration ... 

Ah, loosely speaking, myself appears to be ethnic "Appalachian", on my father's side with his HUFFMAN, SMITH, MEDLOCK grand-parents

Charles B Huffman son of Michael (son of John) ... Michael b. in North Carolina, Charles his son born in KY, Charles oldest child born in IL but his youngest dau (my gt.granny) born in TX ... So looking at it I'd guess on that side I'd be Appalachian. 

On the Medlock side Thomas b. NC or SC, oldest ch born in NC but of the three known by the first wife, the two I am desc from were born in IN/IL, but also much related to desc of the oldest (b 1827). Thomas presumed to have taken his three along with him and his 3rd wife (the 2nd one had no issue and they were div) had one in MO ... 

BUT that's just more Appalachian, right? Right.  

And not all that much different from my mother's side. 

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I have a grandchild born Europe who shares my dozens of PGM ancestors.
by Bobbie Hall G2G6 Pilot (340k points)
yah I am not alone

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