Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Farthest Flung Ancestor

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1) Our family trees contain historical persons who came from places all over the world.  Each of our ancestral lines came from somewhere.

2)  Can you identify your Farthest-Flung Ancestor (FFA)?  Who in your ancestral tree came from the most geographically distant place from where you live now? What brought them (or their descendants) to where your family ended up?

3)  Share your information about your Farthest Flung Ancestor  in your own blog post, writing a comment on this blog post, or put it in a Substack post, Facebook Note, or some other social media system.  Please leave a comment on this post so others can find it.

Thank you to Linda Stufflebean for this idea.

Here's mine:

I don't know exactly who my Farthest Flung Ancestor is.  I live in Chula Vista, California, USA (near San Diego), and my ancestry is 100% European to my knowledge (although I may have an indigenous North American if my DNA ethnicity estimates are correct, but that's closer than Europe).  I have identified ancestors who were born in the British Isles, France, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland.  Some of my candidates:

• Jacob Spengler (1618-1664) of Schoftland, Switzerland, about 9,300 km from Chula Vista 
• Georg Dietrich Geringer (1645-1722) of Edenkoben, Rheinland-Pfalz, about 9,400 km from Chula Vista
• Theodorus Friednreich Houx (1725-1802) of Pflummern, Rheinland-Pfalz, about 9,300 km from Chula Vista.

The British Isles, France and Netherlands are all closer to Chula Vista that those German and Swiss towns.  

My wife Linda's Farthest Flung Ancestor is undoubtedly Jane (Whittle) McKnew (1847-1921) who was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, about 12,100 km from Chula Vista.

I used Google Search to tell me the distances "as the crow flies."  

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