You can build belonging somewhere your ancestors never imagined.

Belonging is not only inherited. People build it in cities their families never heard of, in languages nobody before them spoke, among friends who become the equivalent of relatives. It takes longer than the inherited kind and it is no less real once it exists, made out of routine, contribution, and time rather than lineage.

If you are somewhere your history does not cover, build it deliberately. Show up repeatedly to the same places and people. Belonging of this sort is constructed rather than found, which means it is available.