My father's family lived in Ohio until they moved out here to California in the 1950s, but I hadn't known until recently that further back, my paternal ancestors (that'd be the Irish ones) lived in New York, specifically in the area shown as a mid-dark green on the southern show of Lake Ontario in this image, if I've got the story right. Perhaps it's not so weird at all for me to want to go back to that part of the continent there after all.