Funnily enough, my dad's family has always considered itself German. After doing some DNA tests, it turns out that other than our last name (and thus direct paternal line), pretty much the entire family lineage is English. I was able to track that lineage back to Germany and even back to a small village in the 1500s. They came over in the 1720, part of some huge waves of Palatinate German migrations.
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Funnily enough, my dad's family has always considered itself German. After doing some DNA tests, it turns out that other than our last name (and thus direct paternal line), pretty much the entire family lineage is English. I was able to track that lineage back to Germany and even back to a small village in the 1500s. They came over in the 1720, part of some huge waves of Palatinate German migrations.