Message from @Drover Tom

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2019-02-22 00:43:46 UTC  

@Mitchell-TX I tried doing my own but did it wrong

2019-02-22 00:43:54 UTC  

I traced a few ancestors back to England, Ireland and one from Switzerland

2019-02-22 00:44:11 UTC  

Yeah they were still in America in the 1600’s

2019-02-22 00:44:23 UTC  

That’s when they came over I think

2019-02-22 00:47:08 UTC  

I traced mine back to like the late 1700's in Prussia

2019-02-22 00:47:35 UTC  

@Drover Tom My Dad’s side is from Prussia

2019-02-22 00:48:32 UTC  

That's where my dad's side is too

2019-02-22 00:48:35 UTC  

They were from West Prussia in a little town called Garnsee

2019-02-22 00:49:22 UTC  

I'd have to go back and look at mine. I have photographs of marriage records and stuff. They kept very good records lol

2019-02-22 00:49:26 UTC  

You’ll find that once you go back far enough, especially if you have Anglo roots, you will find you are related to some royalty and at that point all the family history is complete for hundreds of years because that far back only the royal families had solid records.

2019-02-22 00:49:50 UTC  

are all of us from the same place? @DixieBoy76 - KY @Drover Tom

2019-02-22 00:50:09 UTC  

Hundreds of years on that specific line, which is very distant. We are all related to millions of people closer than we realize.

2019-02-22 00:51:02 UTC  

@Jacob Depends if we're talking pre or post Poland

2019-02-22 00:51:23 UTC  

@Mitchell-TX yep mom’s side is Anglo that’s the side that’s been here since the 1600’s

2019-02-22 00:51:53 UTC  

@Drover Tom my ancestors lived in the same place for hundreds of years

2019-02-22 00:51:56 UTC  

@Drover Tom @Jacob Return Prussia to the Prussians

2019-02-22 00:51:58 UTC  

so both pre and post lol

2019-02-22 00:52:06 UTC  

Return Prussia to the Prussians Jacob

2019-02-22 00:52:08 UTC  

Do it

2019-02-22 00:52:12 UTC  

Personally go there

2019-02-22 00:52:16 UTC  

Probably are then

2019-02-22 00:52:17 UTC  

And return it

2019-02-22 00:52:24 UTC  

😂

2019-02-22 00:52:30 UTC  

> was Polish before it was German
> return
🤔 🤔 🤔

2019-02-22 00:52:34 UTC  

I’ll have my sister bake you a cake

2019-02-22 00:52:37 UTC  

It wasn’t polish

2019-02-22 00:52:44 UTC  

It was old Prussian which was a Baltic people

2019-02-22 00:52:45 UTC  

people have this weird idea that Poland started in 1918 out of thin air

2019-02-22 00:52:59 UTC  

Prussia owned that area since the early Middle Ages

2019-02-22 00:53:08 UTC  

Ever heard of the Teutonic Knights 😂

2019-02-22 00:53:13 UTC  

The people there now though aren't the same as pre 1918

2019-02-22 00:53:39 UTC  

It was Prussian before it was German (Prussians aren't actually German; they're Balts, like Latvians and Lithuanians). 😎

2019-02-22 00:53:41 UTC  

Because of the whole ethnic cleansing of eastern europe of germans post ww2 thing

2019-02-22 00:53:43 UTC  

The Russians ethnically cleansed Prussia after WW2

2019-02-22 00:54:05 UTC  

@Bjorn - MD that’s why I tell people I’m Prussian and not German

2019-02-22 00:54:19 UTC  

@Bjorn - MD No, that's only East Prussia

2019-02-22 00:54:39 UTC  

Alt Hype talks about how in Western Europe, almost everyone is related to royalty because the lower classes were continuously dying off and being replaced by the next class higher

2019-02-22 00:55:00 UTC  

Or unextroardinary members of higher classes

2019-02-22 00:55:12 UTC  

"The people there now though aren't the same as pre 1918"
This talking point *might* work if my ancestors weren't Kashubian, who were there before both Germans and regular Polaks @Drover Tom

2019-02-22 00:55:23 UTC  

@Jacob Politically, yeah, but I'm just saying that linguistically all Prussians are Balts, not actually Germans. They were merely Germanicized by the Teutonic Order during the "Northern Crusades".

2019-02-22 00:55:26 UTC  

Related to royalty? Hunny, I *IS* royalty 👄💅🏻