As you guys know, I’m a genealogy buff and I just think about my own ancestors who left their homes. What made them decide that this was it, the point where they’d leave home and never return? Like I know the broader facts of poverty, not having autonomy, the Potato Famine, etc but what makes a man or woman leave what’s been home for generations of their family and decides to start anew. This isn’t an “I’m moving” rant but more of wondering what it took. We are Americans, yes but just as longer we were something else too.