My first genetic community and only one at the moment...
Ancestry has grouped the people of the Blue Ridge Highlands into a community. And they tell you which of your ancestors lived there...
To be more specific they said...
"Complex religious and economic crises in the eighteenth century often forced poor laborers across Great Britain and Germany to choose between oppression or emigration. Many of them moved into untamed land in the Pennsylvanian, Virginian, and Carolinian back country. As they continued west, these farmers settled Central Appalachia where the steep, timbered mountains provided a unique challenge to survival. The discovery of coal transformed the region into a network of mining towns whose success often fluctuated between boom and bust."
This should be handy for research purposes... some how... to be continued...
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