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On another subject and without getting political or emotive I compare my current feelings as I write this from Somerset England to those of our ancestors who at the time of the clearances contemplated abandoning what they knew and loved for the unknown of either Canada or the US, and a potential better life. I find myself doing the very same thing. There is a certain poetic justice in perhaps following those kinsfolk, now in the 21st century to places they settled all those years ago. So let me post a question... Where are there now the most Livingstones in N America? Where did our ancestors descendents end up? God Bless ye all, wherever you are. I may be following you just a year or two late.....

Interesting question, Jason!

Thanks Kyle, You are so right of course. We are now in the western world such a motive workforce and it has always been that way. I was born in Dorset and at 2 years of age my family moved to Australia. Then when I was 10 we moved back again (Granddad died) to Dorset then Somerset. I moved to the US when I was 23 and worked in 26 states over the next 5 years finally settling back in England within 10 miles of where I went to school! My wife was born in Sussex schooled in Toronto then lived in Australia before moving back here! Looking at things in a non scientific way it seems to me that often once people have finally emigrated without the intention of "coming home" they do seem to stick to the same areas pretty much, which in turn become "Home". (Your mammoth task for the registry is to be applauded and I wait with some great interest in its data!) Falling in with your rationale for the registry is my posing of the question of where now, (once all the frontiers have been crossed settled and "Home" has been established), are the highest concentrations of Livingstone

From my understanding of my family they left Scotland in 1821 and settled in what is now Renfrew County, Ontario (The upper ottawa valley) My great grandfather then came to the US, at which port I don't know, before settling in Washington State in Spokane There use to be a book of Livingstone's listing every Livingstone in the US, including their addresses.

Well, my Grandfather decided in 1947 to uproot his family and moved to New Hampshire, USA. I am unsure if that was his first stop but it is where he ended up by the 1960's. Since then there is still family in New Hampshire, but I have moved to warmer climates and live in Arizona. Where is everyone else? Who has the map of North America with the push-pins? haha David