Hello Forum :)

[leachim_x]

I am Michael from Western Germany. I’ve been looking for a Forum like this for quite a while.

I have always been very interested in history, and for the last 5-6 years also in the subject of ancestry & DNA. At that time my dad found an old booklet with the lineage of my paternal grandmother. From that moment on, I started gathering some more information…which was pretty easy. It turned out that I am largely descended from old local farmer families, which are very easy to trace because there are so many documented entries. I traced more than 50 direct Ancestors from paternal side and also 20+ from the maternal side. So multiple twigs continuously back to the 16-1700s.

So I found out that i am pretty much unique. I am (predominantly) one of the very few native people before this region became industrialized and transformed into one of the the most populated / most dense / most migrated / and kinda most industrialized & polluted Metro regions in Western and Wentral Europe.

btw: I still need some help with some settings and features, before I dive deeper into this forum.

Kind regards 

[Loki]

Welcome Michael! Good to have you here with us. I hope you will enjoy the forum.

[Mortimer]

Welcome to the Forum

[Teutone]

Grüß dich und willkommen, deine DNA verweist auf 100% Volksdeutsche Abstammung, dazu kann ich dir nur gratulieren.

[frankhammer]

Welcome.

[~Elizabeth~]

Hello Michael from Germany. Welcome to the forum.

[leachim_x]

Thank you all for your kind welcome.

Can anybody tell me how you got that customization stuff under your nickname? You can message me private (if this is possible) or here if this is ok for the mods?!

[~Elizabeth~]

Thank you all for your kind welcome.

Can anybody tell me how you got that customization stuff under your nickname? You can message me private (if this is possible) or here if this is ok for the mods?!

It is under "Permission Groups" in your settings or profile. I added mine one at a time. I couldn't do all of it at once.

[Beowulf]

Thank you all for your kind welcome.

Can anybody tell me how you got that customization stuff under your nickname? You can message me private (if this is possible) or here if this is ok for the mods?!

for the photo go to settings > avatar and then you can choose the photo you want

for the second image go also to settings and then permission groups.

Welcome.

[Zeno]

Fröhliches willkommen, Michael.

I hope you enjoy your stay in this forum.