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[–]StillWeCarryOn 3ポイント4ポイント  (5子コメント)

I feel like im going to be in the opposite boat.. my dad claims he is 100% german but ive found several records of his family moving tonamerica from Russia and Poland and my dad (and his dad before he passed) gets angry anytime someone brings up the idea that we might be polish.

I want tobget a tattoo on the German crest, but I'm too chicken to do it without doing to DNA test to see if i really am 75% german or not

[–]ProfitMoney 15ポイント16ポイント  (0子コメント)

It would be awesome if you guys turned out to be Ashkenazi Jews.

[–]rhyostar 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

Borders in Europe have moved around a lot, and there have historically been lots of German-speaking people living in parts of modern-day Russia and Poland. So having ancestors from those parts of the world doesn't necessarily preclude being "100% German" (whatever that means)

[–]StillWeCarryOn 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Trust me we've gone through all of this haha. From what I can gather, the part where my family came from was disputed territory around that time, and I've seen conflicting records for some ancestors where one will say they came from Russia and the other says they came from Germany. My dad and grandfather are and were just very, very proud of their so called "pure German ancestry" (and now that I think about it, it's kind of in line with their ever so subtle racism). I've even tried to show him pictures and explain that he literally looks nothing like an ethnic German and he refuses to believe anything. I'm kind of hoping if I do the test it shows that we're super super Russian or something just to say told you so but I'm not sure how distinct the genetic markers are between German, Polish and Russian with these tests.

[–]GloriousPancake 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

My one ancestor I have records for is my ethnic Ukrainian great grandfather, who was baptized in Grozny and resided in Vienna before heading to the US. I think we Americans have this image of Europe in the 19th century and earlier as a fairly static place with rigid borders and low population mobility, but it wasn't necessarily so.

[–]StillWeCarryOn 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh trust me, i get that boarder were all over the place. Im just really xurious to know exactly how distinctive the test results could be between the three ethnic groups. Its obvious from the records ibe found that my family came from disputed/changing territory but im still curious to see how much id find out