When I looked in to it on one of my parents’ sides, it’s like 15 generations/450 years of almost no mobility on a ±30km² area of 4 small villages around the same river… Only 2 generations ago did some break away from the area, mainly to larger cities nearby and for all the hundreds of others in the tree I researched I found only 1 older move to a big city about 150y ago. I’m assuming the no-mobility tree (tho sources end in middle ages) continues like that to Roman times and even further back. Before trains and cars, many people didn’t leave their birth area at all during their entire life.
When I looked in to it on one of my parents’ sides, it’s like 15 generations/450 years of almost no mobility on a ±30km² area of 4 small villages around the same river… Only 2 generations ago did some break away from the area, mainly to larger cities nearby and for all the hundreds of others in the tree I researched I found only 1 older move to a big city about 150y ago. I’m assuming the no-mobility tree (tho sources end in middle ages) continues like that to Roman times and even further back. Before trains and cars, many people didn’t leave their birth area at all during their entire life.