I reckon I have to take my leave...

[Barreldriver]

A 1/512 non-European descent? Go away, you mongrel!!!

Seriously, if this isn't a joke.....don't leave!! We like you already

And I reckon if these vids are correct, http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...ight=americans, then it's not that big of a deal, because my Injun ancestor was thought to be white at first glance, could barely tell according to the descriptions, he had an active role in the American Revolution, acted as a peacekeeper between Injuns and the Colonials.

[Absinthe]

I'm thinking of going to the doc and asking for a pedigree that says "100% bitch"

[Ulf]

Post your entire records from the moment your ancestors came off the boat

I can if you wish.

[Barreldriver]

I'm 100% Grade A Pasteurized Homogenized Certified Deitsch. So nyah.

Speaking of Deitsch you familiar with the name Viehdorfer? I'm doing some research on my ma's kin and the Miller/Viehdorfer line is buggerin' me, the Viehdorfer's are traced back to Germany, and possibly Austria since there's a place in Austria named Viehdorf, and I did a surname origin thing and it seems to be most prominent within Deitsch communities.

[The Lawspeaker]

Interesting. I have always wanted to see records of smaller groups in the U.S (like the Deitsch). So please do.
They are the group that I know very little about.

[Barreldriver]

I'm thinking of going to the doc and asking for a pedigree that says "100% bitch"

lol that would be hilarious. lol Wonder how the doc'll react.

[Ulf]

Speaking of Deitsch you familiar with the name Viehdorfer? I'm doing some research on my ma's kin and the Miller/Viehdorfer line is buggerin' me, the Viehdorfer's are traced back to Germany, and possibly Austria since there's a place in Austria named Viehdorf, and I did a surname origin thing and it seems to be most prominent within Deitsch communities.

If they came from Austria, probably not Deitsch, more likely a forty-eighter. Most Deitsch arrived here before the Revolutionary War. Possibly they may have married into the Deitsch.

If you know when/where they landed and settled I could be of more use.

[Barreldriver]

If they came from Austria, probably not Deitsch, more likely a forty-eighter. Most Deitsch arrived here before the Revolutionary War. Possibly they may have married into the Deitsch.

If you know when/where they landed and settled I could be of more use.

Her family came here around the 1840's. The first Viehdorfer American in my family was born in Germany around 1846 then came to Pennsylvania and died. Then James A.B. Miller's line from Pennsylvania married into the Viehdorfer line, the Miller line from what I've been told by my ma's family were Deitsch but I cannot prove it yet.

[Skandi]

Don't worry about that small bit, seems we need a thread on what % admixture is allowed! Personally my great, great, great grandmother is from somewhere near Klaipeda, before marrying a Swede but I ignore this as it's way to small to mention when people ask about my ancestry. (not that there's anything wrong with that neck of the woods.)

[Ulf]

Her family came here around the 1840's. The first Viehdorfer American in my family was born in Germany around 1846 then came to Pennsylvania and died.

Not Deitsch, but it would not have been hard to have been assimilated into our great ranks!

My first 'American' Ancestor was born in Grosshöchstetten, Switzerland in 1706, came to America in 1732 from Rotterdam aboard the ship Samuel, thanks to the awesome Dutch Mennonites freeing them from prison, and died in Bucks County, PA on July 9th 1772.

By the time your ancestors had arrived, unless they spoke Plattdeutsch, would have had a little difficulty understanding one another.