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

Probably are then

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 👄💅🏻

So we're all just descendants of shitty merchants

When you look closely at the lines, you can see where cousins married and where commoners married into noble families. All kinds of interesting things.

@John O - The Hanseatic pill <:redpill:439924063377555497>

@Jacob I'm talking more culturally and socially not necessarily ethnic

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

I guess, but, I mean this just depends how far back you wanna go. Sure, Poland kicked Germans out. But Germans were only there because they kicked the original Polaks out.

Culturally and socially Kashubians were in Pomerania the longest

I am pretty sure my ancestors were Old Prussians but ancestry picks that up as Germanic.

@Jacob Granted. Even a significant amount of Germany proper was originally inhabited by Western Slavs, hence the Sorbs.

Because I uploaded to GEDMatch and it shows a lot of Baltic genes

They were all pretty much the same though, like under the Prussian/German empire