re: White Americans think they are mostly German but they are mostly British

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Didn’t Britons comes from Germany?

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There were so many tribes that lived in Briton, but modern scholars believe the original Britons died out or left the British Isles. They were replaced by a Central European people now referred to as Beaker People. They are probably similar to modern Germans genetically. Later Anglo-Saxons took over much of the land and interbred with the Beakers. So yeah, a lot of German.

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My Great Grandfather on my Mom's side , Matija Turk

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Turk.....strong last name.

I am a mix of French and German

There's really not a whole lot of difference between the two.

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It's funny because a lot of people in Louisiana who think they are Cajun are actually more

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Spanish/Isleno

Like most of Pierre Part and down Bayou Lafourche.

If you come from Europe, you are made-up of three ancestries:

1) Hunter-gatherers who ruled Europe from 40,000 years ago up until about 8,000 years ago.

2) Neolithic farmers who came in from Anatolia starting about 8,000 years ago, making it to places like Britain by 6,000 years ago. They basically pushed the old hunter-gatherers to the Pacific coastal areas.

3) Then in Bronze age (3,000 BC) the Ukrainians came in and killed off most people in Northern Europe. They killed all the men and "married" the native women. (We know this through DNA sampling of ancient skeletons). They started the Corded Ware Culture which dominated Northern/Eastern Europe. They also invaded southern Europe to some degree, but didn't fully replace the populations there. These people would have brought in the original Indo-European language. This language would evolve into Germanic, Italic/Latin/Romance, Celtic, Greek, Iranian, and Indic/Sanskrit, among others.

Any movements since that time were simply these three groups spreading around within Europe. Romans, Celts, Vikings, Anglos, etc. All the same people with different admixture levels of the same three populations. For example, Greeks/Romans were heavier in Neolithic ancestry while Vikings/Anglos were heavier in Ukrainian bronze age ancestry.

My great aunt traced our family history back to well before the Revolutionary War. What she found is we’re overwhelmingly of English descent with a little German, French, and Cherokee mixed in.

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One common thing is most of my ancestors followed a similar migration pattern. South Carolina > Alabama > Mississippi

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Yeah same in my family. Started in Virginia in 1600s. Moved to NC, then SC. After Cumberland Gap opened, moved across Appalachia into TN, AL, KY, etc.

My family is from texas but I’m pretty I have a great grandfather that fought for just about every state in the south in the civil war. They also have similar patterns. Virginia to the Carolinas through Tennessee and Arkansas then to texas. Or down to Georgia and then Alabama and then texas.