User blog comment:Suriken88/Rumour: Assassin's Creed 3 Setting Revealed/@comment-1888015-20120130182337/@comment-1153722-20120130190631

Making the ancestor American would be most sensible, yes... unfortunately. There's not much reason for an ancestor from any other time period when Desmond's in America. Probably one of Desmond's American ancestors did something Desmond needs to find out to progress further in his attempt to save the world...