WHAT MY ANCESTORS HAD IN COMMON.

WHAT MY ANCESTORS HAD IN COMMON. As I have posted, for example here, at our dinner table, my father would point out on occasion that our ancestors had in common that rather than fight for their land, they had moved to parts of the world where nobody else would want to settle. Achill Island was an example from his side of the family, and he claimed that my mother’s family had come from areas in Denmark that were not good farmland—bogs predominantly. This wikipedia article says that Achill Island is 87% peat bog. It has a population of 2700 in an area of 57 square miles—less than 50 people per square mile. Few people want to live there, even now.