Central Germans

[Götterfunke]

If DNA test would show you such result you would have most likely Polish ancestry, but as you don't have any Eastern European ancestors then proboably you would get a result typical for a German person

Well 23andme considers me 12% Polish, and AncestryDNA says something about 26% Eastern European ... I've always considered it to be misinterpreted Upper Silesian DNA though (Upper Silesia is close Katowice)

It'd make sense as one of my grandmothers (25% of my DNA) was born there.

We also have no knowledge of Polish names in our family tree at all. It might be theoretically possible that her mother (my great-grandmother) was Polish though as I know nothing about her. She fled to the US after the war and let her children behind, her husband (my great-grandfather) died in battle.

[Token]

Most Germans here in Brazil are Central Germans, more specifically Moselle Franks. I personally know tons of them. I even know a word or two of Hunsruckisch Moselle Franconian, which is almost extinct in Germany but alive and well in south Brazil.

[Finnish Swede]

Are most of Central Germans dark haired and dark eyed?

[Jana]

Well 23andme considers me 12% Polish, and AncestryDNA says something about 26% Eastern European ... I've always considered it to be misinterpreted Upper Silesian DNA though (Upper Silesia is close Katowice)

It'd make sense as one of my grandmothers (25% of my DNA) was born there.

We also have no knowledge of Polish names in our family tree at all. It might be theoretically possible that her mother (my great-grandmother) was Polish though as I know nothing about her. She fled to the US after the war and let her children behind, her husband (my great-grandfather) died in battle.

Germans from Silesia are mixed with Slavs. It's very old admixture from medieval times.

[Jana]

Are most of Central Germans dark haired and dark eyed?

ofcourse not

[Finnish Swede]

ofcourse not

Are they mostly dirty blonds?

[Götterfunke]

Germans from Silesia are mixed with Slavs. It's very old admixture from medieval times.

That ancient admixture shouldn't appear on 23andme or AncestryDNA though as they only check recent ethnicities with rather young control groups.

[Götterfunke]

Germans from Silesia are mixed with Slavs. It's very old admixture from medieval times.

That ancient admixture shouldn't appear on 23andme or AncestryDNA though as they only check recent ethnicities with rather young control groups.

My guess is that I fit the remaining Germans who still live in Silesia and were used for the control groups, and that they count this as Eastern European.

Although I don't know for sure-the mother of my great-grandmother could have been Polish as well. It's just rather unlikely.

[RandomGuy20]

Are most of Central Germans dark haired and dark eyed?

In a sense imo my family from Central-West Germany have darker hair and darker (more "olive" when tanned) complexion compared to their Northern counterparts, blue eyes though.
Generally differing headshape/features in general from what I have observed from central Germans.

[Jana]

That ancient admixture shouldn't appear on 23andme or AncestryDNA though as they only check recent ethnicities with rather young control groups.

They have Polish like admixture.