Message from @Drover Tom
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@Mitchell-TX I tried doing my own but did it wrong
I traced a few ancestors back to England, Ireland and one from Switzerland
Yeah they were still in America in the 1600’s
That’s when they came over I think
I traced mine back to like the late 1700's in Prussia
@Drover Tom My Dad’s side is from Prussia
That's where my dad's side is too
They were from West Prussia in a little town called Garnsee
I'd have to go back and look at mine. I have photographs of marriage records and stuff. They kept very good records lol
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.
are all of us from the same place? @DixieBoy76 - KY @Drover Tom
Hundreds of years on that specific line, which is very distant. We are all related to millions of people closer than we realize.
@Jacob Depends if we're talking pre or post Poland
@Mitchell-TX yep mom’s side is Anglo that’s the side that’s been here since the 1600’s
@Drover Tom my ancestors lived in the same place for hundreds of years
@Drover Tom @Jacob Return Prussia to the Prussians
so both pre and post lol
Return Prussia to the Prussians Jacob
Do it
Personally go there
And return it
😂
> was Polish before it was German
> return
🤔 🤔 🤔
I’ll have my sister bake you a cake
It wasn’t polish
It was old Prussian which was a Baltic people
people have this weird idea that Poland started in 1918 out of thin air
Prussia owned that area since the early Middle Ages
Ever heard of the Teutonic Knights 😂
The people there now though aren't the same as pre 1918
It was Prussian before it was German (Prussians aren't actually German; they're Balts, like Latvians and Lithuanians). 😎
Because of the whole ethnic cleansing of eastern europe of germans post ww2 thing
The Russians ethnically cleansed Prussia after WW2
@Bjorn - MD that’s why I tell people I’m Prussian and not German
@Bjorn - MD No, that's only East Prussia
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
Or unextroardinary members of higher classes
"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
@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".
Related to royalty? Hunny, I *IS* royalty 👄💅🏻