Where did your ancestors live in 1800?

[Bobby Martnen]

Nope.

You think that you're German, as evidenced by the quote in your signature.

[Ouistreham]

Even if they were French-speaking, they were still ethnically German. I have Alsatian roots, as well, and I've seen their genetics.

Alsatians are German, and tbh Alsace-Lorraine should have been partitioned along ethnic lines after WWI instead of just given entirely to France.

Typical oversimplifying POV of a mongrel American...
(No offence intended)
This stripe of land between the Meuse and Rhine rivers, from Maastricht (NJ) to Metz (FR) is a very special district. Because it used to be once upon a time Charlemagne's homeland.
Ethnical and cultural barriers have always been extremely sharp between Prussia and Poland, between Austrian Tyrol and Italy and Hungary, but not there.
It would take weeks to explain it all. To explain why Alsace is more German than present-day Germany (German tourist come there to see what traditional Germany used to look like!) and at the same time remains the stronghold of French nationalism.

Anyway: my paternal ancestry is from there. Probably the reason why our family tradition is to learn German as first foreign language (a tradition that is being passed to my children). Though I was born much further West, in Normandy. (Now you know why my English isn't top notch).

[Rethel]

You think that you're German, as evidenced by the quote in your signature.

But there is a huge difference between 1/4 and just, don;t you think?

[Jackson78]

In 3 today's countries, in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Croatia.

[cosmoo]

All of them were in Montenegro.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Portugal.

[Bobby Martnen]

Typical oversimplifying POV of a mongrel American...
(No offence intended)
This stripe of land between the Meuse and Rhine rivers, from Maastricht (NJ) to Metz (FR) is a very special district. Because it used to be once upon a time Charlemagne's homeland.
Ethnical and cultural barriers have always been extremely sharp between Prussia and Poland, between Austrian Tyrol and Italy and Hungary, but not there.
It would take weeks to explain it all. To explain why Alsace is more German than present-day Germany (German tourist come there to see what traditional Germany used to look like!) and at the same time remains the stronghold of French nationalism.

Anyway: my paternal ancestry is from there. Probably the reason why our family tradition is to learn German as first foreign language (a tradition that is being passed to my children). Though I was born much further West, in Normandy. (Now you know why my English isn't top notch).

I have no doubt that the people there are now mostly French in a civic sense, but ethnically/genetically, they are German

[Peterski]

Most surely lived in Prussia, of which at least one ancestor in Kreis Koschmin:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreis_Koschmin



Kashubian branch of my ancestors lived somewhere here, based on this data:

http://odessa3.org/collections/land/wprussia/

[Peterski]

pretty much half in my country

Could any of that half of your ancestors in 1800 be 100% Amerindian?

[Kriptc06]

Could any of that half of your ancestors in 1800 be 100% Amerindian?

yes, but I'm not sure, only tales that the grandmother of my grandfather was a indigenous woman.