TJ, It's not going back for some person alive now to go to somewhere where once upon a time a horde of their ancestors lived.
I have 2 parents, 4 grand parents, 8 great gps, 16 gggps, 32, 64, 128, 256, ... for 33 generations, which is about 600 or 1000 years, = 17,179,869,184 oooops, there weren't that many people. So, we can see that there was inbreeding over the centuries and a lot of it.
Where should one go back to? Given that many people, it looks as though somebody could claim to go back to just about anywhere.
Gene studies show a LOT of comingling of genes from all over the place. Which isn't surprising given the propensity of female primates to breed outside their immediate family groups.
If people "go back" it isn't "going back" it's just going somewhere else and calling "going back". Somebody can't "go back" to somewhere where they never were.
Even if they can "go back" to somewhere they actually were, such as me going back to live in Antwerp, it's all different and what I owned then, I don't own now and what I rented then, isn't available for lease now. The past has gone. When one goes back somewhere, trying to recreate even fairly recent good times, they have invariably evaporated and little more than a ghost remains.
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