Post pictures of your ancestral locations

[Geni]

Paternal Great-Grandfather village.



Great-Grandfathers traditional Albanian chamber.

Sa vend i bukur qenka ..nese e ke vete shpine mos e prish kurre se qenka vend mrekulli

[Iloko]

Here's my paternal line. My maternal origins are unclear...

[Scholarios]

[Marusya]

Ukraine.











I call this one "Gypsy Kings have invaded."

[♥ Lily ♥]

Bournemouth (pronounced as 'Bourn-muth')

My maternal and paternal parents, my great grandparents and most of my great great grandparents were also born and raised and buried in Christchurch and Bournemouth in Dorset. One of my great maternal grandparents stems from Co. Mayo, western Eire, and another great paternal grandparents was from Wales. Quite a few of my great great great relatives stem back to Somerset (close to Wales and neighbouring Cornwall in the West Country,) and the rest from Bournemouth and Christchurch in Dorset.

I was also born there in a maternity and nursing place and mostly raised in Bournemouth too.

Dorset is one of the counties in south-west England which is known as 'King Arthur's West Country'; which includes the counties of Dorset, Devon, Somerset and Celtic Cornwall.

It's a small Conservative-led town on the south-west coast of England. The Conservative Party hold their annual conference at one of the hotels in Bournemouth every year. It's 90 minutes train ride from London, with award-winning gardens and clean and safe beaches and lots of fun things for children, so I enjoyed growing up here and have lots of happy memories with my grandparents here. The town is popular with people who retire, but also with families and students too.

There isn't as much choice of shops compared to London, but there's some nice shops there, craft shops and bookshops, for instance, but not much choices for clothes shops.

It's still mostly white British people who make up most of the inhabitants, with some Polish immigrants. The town is popular with tourists from other parts of the UK as it has the best beaches in Britain. I used to see quite a few Swedish tourists there too as a child during the summer, as well as Japanese and Italian students attending a local English language school during the summer season.

Ancient UNESCO World Heritage sites like Stonehenge and Avebury are close to reach from Bournemouth, along with the UNESCO World Heritage City of Bath with its beautiful Roman Spas, the New Forest (actually an old forest!) Corfe Castle (the ruins of a Norman castle on top of a hill,) Maiden Castle (an ancient Celtic hill fort - the largest in Europe,) Cerne Abbas Giant, the UNESCO World Heritage Jurassic Coastline between Dorset and Devon, (where continuous findings of fossils shows proof of life dating to over 185 million years ago,) and a world-class sailing location are all nearby in the West Country region, as well as the English Riviera between Dorset and Devon.

Steam trains still run through some pretty villages in Dorset too. Folk dancers can be seen sometimes in the villages, and local bandstands perform in the Pavilion Gardens during the summer season. There's some nightclubs there too which people say are the best on the south coast. Lifeguards are on the clean beaches. Ferry rides and a local airport gives quick rides to the islands of Jersey and Guernsey.

There's fun mini-golf courses, horse-riding in the New Forest, childrens motor-carting, childrens mini-train rides, childrens mini boat paddling, windsurfing, paragliding off the cliffs, speedboats, jet-skiing, childrens adventure parks, an Oceanarium Aquarium, swimming pool with a wave-machine in the Bournemouth International Centre, and there's aerobatic displays in the sky over the sea by the elite RAF Red Arrows and also night-glider twister jet planes with fireworks coming out the planes give perfromances over the sea during the summer, accompanied with music.

There's cliff-lifts and zig-zag paths along the cliffs, a pier with entertainment... plus I used to love the fun Science Centre for children in Poole Park and the childrens mini train rides around the edge of the entire park, and the 'sandman' who made ornaments and things from sand in nearby Weymouth, and I liked lighting the candles with local people (coloured bulbs with candles in them across the lower gardens to resemble pretty designs when all the bulbs were lit by the public,) and I loved watching my sister playing the bells with her grammar school in the Winter Gardens.

I loved travelling on the open-roofed buses on a ferry to nearby Brownsea Island, and going on catamaran rides to the Isle of Wight with my aunts, uncles, parents, sisters and grandparents and having picnics a lot, (we'd go someone everyday of the school holidays to local places and it didn't cost much to visit local places, and making things from sand and sea-shells, catching starfish, going on seaside rides and walks through the gardens, and me and my sisters and cousins had a lot of fun growing up there.)

I liked visiting National Trust Properties and Kingston Lacy House with my mum and her partner and my sisters and travelling on the back of my mum and her partners bikes through lots of green hills and pretty villages at weekends, and just loads of things I loved doing there as a child and teen with my relatives and grandparents.and aunts and cousins.

Most of my relatives still live there, my mother and sisters, and several of my paternal and maternal cousins and aunts and uncles still live there.

A nationwide survey found that people who live in Bournemouth were found to be the happiest people in the UK in their responses when people across Britain were asked how happy they felt with life in the nationwide survey. Maybe it's due to the extra sunlight hours in B'm'th.
























Beach lifeguards (real life heroes (who don't receive footballers salaries) are struggling with their work due to a lack of funding,
but the UK government gives £375 million each week to help fund eastern European nations and the government gave over £1 billion in Foreign Aid to help the rising superpower nation of India.)

[♥ Lily ♥]

Bournemouth, Dorset

[♥ Lily ♥]

Bournemouth, Dorset

[Potentia]

I don't really have the exact location from where I came from. But, my last name comes from the region of Galicia in Spain.


Then... My Native American side is mostly from the Mexican State of Zacatecas.

Not very impressive. Right? Mostly just desert down there.

Anyways. After my Spanish and Native I am mostly just a mix of pretty much everything else Northern European.

[JBoscherville]

Ancestral homeland.

[Cheryshiev Shadgiyev]