I feel like I have no heritage.

My family has no strong cultural ties to any group, country, ethnicity, or religion. My ancestry is "American white mutt" - there's some of just about every Western European country in there, with *maybe* the most prevalent being Scotland or England.

My family tree is actually really well researched and is about as filled out as it can be, and the most recently that any direct ancestors of mine emigrated to America was the 1830s from Scotland, with the vast majority of my ancestors coming here in the early 1700s from all over the place. Genealogical records I can access from before the 18th century are not very informative beyond a county of England with a birth year or simply "Amsterdam," "Cork," or something similar.

But even then, the number of ancestors who died in the same area of the US that they were born in is very low - there are no generations of my family that are "from" any given state or region. Even if an individual was born and then died in the same place, their parents were born elsewhere and their children moved away.

This feeling is exacerbated by the fact that my dad was in the army and so we moved around a lot when I was growing up, so I don't feel like I'm from anywhere myself. There does seem to a tradition of military service among the men on my paternal line, but that doesn't feel connected to who I am, if that makes sense. I do come from a line of quilters on my mom's side, and I quilt as well, but that too feels disconnected as I never knew my maternal grandmother.

Conversely, my husband and I live less than 10 miles from where he was born and 90% of his family lives within a 2 hour drive, and has lived in this area for generations. His surname is indicative of his ancestry and his mom makes traditional dishes for holidays. It all feels so foreign to me, but in a good way. It makes me want to know where I came from, but every line of questioning seems to tell me "nowhere in particular."

I guess what I'm looking for here is if there is anyone else who feels similarly, and what they've done about it. I feel homeless when it comes to my heritage.