Which part of the Roman Empire/etc. would you have been a resident of ?

[Tender Branson]

Assuming you are from Europe, or have ancestors who immigrated from Europe to the US/Canada etc.

For this purpose, post where your ancestors lived.

For outside the Roman Empire, name the tribe.

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For me: Noricum, which was also the origin of the Hallstatt culture.

[RR1997]

I'm not from Europe nor do I have ancestors who immigrated from Europe to the U.S./Canada 😥

[angus]

Who knows?  My four grandparents were born in four different countries.  Assuming no migration between AD130 and the time they were born circa AD1890, then only two would have been residents of the empire (one in the Balkans and one on the Italian peninsula).  The other two would have been one of the unconquered allemani molesting them from the northeast and one of the unconquered Caledonians pestering them from the northwest.

Given the migrations that occurred among the various tribes of White People between those years, such an assumption seems unlikely to be a valid one.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

My ancestors came from what were the Roman provinces of Lusitania and Tarraconensis.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Born in the Narbonensis or Alpes (depending where the border is exactly), with parents from Italia. Currently living in Lugdunensis.

[DC Al Fine]

Nowhere. My people are all from Caledonii on that map.

[Cranberry]

Raetia

[retromike22]

Hispania and Britannia mostly.

[Miles]

Sicilia or Scotti.

[politicus]

Mostly Heruli, though some Cimbrian (which is not on the map for some reason).

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

My family is Greek

[Supersonic]

Britannia, most likely.

Or maybe some Saxon tribe or something. Who knows?

[Edu]

Sicilia

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I currently live in what was Britannia (not far from the great city of Viroconium, as it happens). In terms of ancestry, I mostly haven't got a clue. Like most white trash my family's historical memory barely makes it to the end of the 18th century (and then only extremely patchily; even the early twentieth century is sketchy for some branches), so...

[Lief 🗽]

The Parthian Empire on that map.

[Vosem]

At that time, Iudaea.

[ZuWo]

Germania Superior. At some point in Late Antiquity I would have been an Alemannus, though.

[afleitch]

The genetics of my 'Y' chromosome seem to suggest we have hardly budged since the Ice Age. So Caledonia I suppose.

[TNF]

British isles, most likely. My ancestors are a hodgepodge of dirt poor Scots, Englishmen, Irish, and of course, a large amount of Native American.

[angus]

and of course, a large amount of Native American.

1/32 perhaps? 

If so, you might consider obtaining tribal medical insurance. 

[DemPGH]

Britannia and Saxones (is that a place?) is as close as I can figure.

[BaconBacon96]

My maternal ancestors are Scots so they would be from Caledonii. My paternal ancestors are Hungarians and Anglo-Indians so I suppose they would be outside the Empire and in Britannia, respectfully.

[Simfan34]

What an assumption to make.

[RogueBeaver]

Gallia.

[TJ in Oregon]

Germania Superior mostly with a few ancestors scattered all over the place.