Deutsche DUers Hier!

[fudge stripe cookays]

Okay--I got all depressed reading all the great Irish DUer stories since I have nary a drop of Irish. But I'm about 3/4 German!

Where are all our German DUers roots from?

If you don't know, here's some good links to get you started:
www.rootsweb.com
www.genforum.com

Fudge Stripe roots:
Dad's side: 1 bunch from Sagau/Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein

Mom's side: 1 bunch from around Gladbeck/Muhlheim/Remscheid, Westphalia. Earlier generation might have been Polish but settled in Prussia.

[Village Idiot]

1. Half and Half...

Dad from Alsace-Lorraine in Germany
Mom from County Down in Ireland

[schyzo-nas]

4. or France?

"Dad from Alsace-Lorraine in Germany"

The european history of the first half of the 20th century in 5 words.

[sundog]

2. part...

German-Jewish (emigre), part Polish-Orthodox (Warsaw), part Russian, part Native-American

strange mix -- true heinz-57

nothing pure here...

[gandalf]

3. Es gibt auch in Deutschland lebende deutsche DUer

like me

[skooooo]

5. Wow..I'd love to hear...

....more perspective from our international DUers. Please tell us...what's gone wrong with our country..???

Sorry, it's just pretty depressing to be a liberal American this day and age. Maybe things will change.

[pagerbear]

6. Mag Deutschland sehr!!

Spreche etwas Deutsch, aber bin nur Ami.

[DBoon]

7. Mom's family from Dresden

Cousin several times removed owns a hotel on the Rhine!

My wife (before I met her) was fascinated with the German language, spent several summers in Germany in Hign School, got a Masters in German literature.

Never thought she'd end up with German relatives

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

8. Since my ma was born in Bad Nauheim.

...im pretty close to my German roots. LOL!

This would be the part of Germany known as Hesse, or Hessen.

Probably more famous to Americans as the source of those mercenarys..though the came from a different part of modern Hessen. At the time of the US revolution my ancestors lived in the "free city of Friedberg" as craftsmen, so wherent under the control of the local princes.

Bad Nauheim has American connections as Franklin Roosevelt spent time here as a kid with his famliy when they took the cure, and later Elvis was stationed here and nearby Friedberg:



http://www.3ad.net/bad_nauheim_&_elvis.htm


On edit...the Fathers side was Polish..my great grandparents emigrated from Lodz, Poland, by way of Antwerp, to Chicago, before WW-I. We've been in the US less than 100 years.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Im Jahre 1899 haben meine Urgrossmutter und Urgrossvater

aus Deutschland emigriert, aus Ostpreussen (Koenigshoehe) und Pommern (Stettin). Zwei Wochen spaeter ist meine Grossmutter geboren.

Nur 1/4 von meinen Verwandten sind deutsch, aber ich habe sie besser gekannt, als die norwegischen und lettischen Verwandten.

Als Kind habe ich immer Deutsch verstanden, aber seitdem meine Urgrosseltern gestorben sind (als ich aufs College war), spricht niemand Deutsch mehr, und ich habe viel vergessen.

Im Jahre 1967 bin ich mit meiner Familie nach Europa gefahren. Dann haben wir einige Verwandten besucht, die als Fluechtlinge in die Bundesrepublik gekommen sind. Das ist meine einzige Europa-Reise.

[JohnKleeb]

10. yep

25% FYI. Not sure where in the country, but I suspect the south because of our Catholicism and rumored Swiss-Germaness.