其实他们中的很多人在那时前不久才刚刚对自己血统的起源地产生兴趣，其中的一部分人——保守一点说——对与他们的祖先的家乡和驱使先辈们离开家乡的原因怀有一些奇怪的想法。

Many of them had only recently discovered an interest in their origins and some, it seems safe to say, held peculiar ideas about where their forebears had come from and what impelled them to leave.

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