I hate that I can’t track my family history because everyone in my family dies young. My great grandpa is an orphan who was raised by another orphan so I have no clue where he comes from. He could be from another country and I’d have no idea.
All I know about my great grandpas parents are that they adopted an orphan and when that orphan was an adult and those parents died, he adopted my great grandpa. But he never told the family anything about where we came from.