Map of movement of 909 maternal blood relatives into the nation between 1700 and 2005. Each red data point locates either one person OR many persons as recorded in thousands of census, birth, death, burial, and marriage records. The arrival, migration, and settlement pattern is encircled – We entered the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions and moved South and then West. Data points outside that area are chiefly the locations of deaths and burials of a only a few.

From the looks of things, you’d think we fuckin’ own Texas…

7/4/15