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

I’m part of one of the oldest and largest family private database on the internet. It’s another AAA just has nothing to do with auto’s.

The original ancestor in N. America goes back to the NE 150 years before the Declaration of Independence . His autobiography and journal are available to family online. But we go back to Rome and Caesar Augustus (kinda what the name means: one who follows Augustus).

Records are still around showing how the Americans moved around to avoid wars/fighting. While the war of independence was going my ancestors moved in to the deeper wilderness and when the Civil War broke out they went farther west until turning South.

1/4 Cherokee
1/4 Choctaw
1/4 Confederate
1/4 White man

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Germans and Brits aren't that different.

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They also were not tied down and prevented from walking all over Europe and mating with one another. My father wanted an ancestry DNA thing for Christmas about 10 years ago so we got him one. It came back that we were mostly central European. He was devastated. We have documented proof (birth certificates, death certificates, census etc) that our family came to the US from Ireland in 1730 and settled in Western NC within a few years of reaching Pennsylvania. Prior to that our family had been in Ireland from around 1600. He was convinced the DNA test proved he was not Scots-Irish. I found some information for him about the origins of the celtic people and he was happy as a clam. Just because a king or a religious leader pretended there was a line somewhere which meant something the people, doing what people do, crossed those imaginary lines, found a mate, did what folks do and had babies. It made no difference if a channel of water or a significant mountain range separated them, people, being people, would walk off, and in a few generations look and sound nothing like their ancestors just a few generations back.

Yep. As opposed to the Cajuns who were descended from Acadians. By now I think most of your “Cajuns” are a mix of both

I am 50% English then German,Scotch Irish,a little Scandanavian and a little French(5%).
Sort of a Heinz 57.

Mom always called me Heinz 57.




My Dad's family was back and forth between Louisiana and Cuba for generations, going back to Spanish colonial rule in LA. Mom's family goes back to the Revolution. He was awarded land in the Mississippi territory for his service under Francis Marion and moved with his 40-year younger bride and produced six more children. Captain Causey was a beast.

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I still want to know where the "Americans think they are mostly German" comes from.

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OP had to make that up.

my dna is 33% germanic

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I still want to know where the "Americans think they are mostly German" comes from. I would think Americans think they are mostly British.

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German was nearly the official language of the US... German immigrants are often forgotten because they were yeoman farmers. Not as interesting as the poor Irish.