Where I come from

I was talking this week with a work colleague who's been dabbling in genealogy, and using ancestry.co.uk to enter his family tree. He commented that the one thing missing from the site that he'd like to see would be a tool to show you how your ancestors moved around from generation to generation. I agreed that that would be neat to be able to see, so here's a manually generated summary for my own family:

( View map )

(I belatedly realise the two dotted lines terminating in "Poland" should have been set to terminate with the Pale of Settlement, but never mind.)