I am very proud of my german heritage........
2006-07-21 08:18:15 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
My dad was pure Prussian. It made for good food on the holidays and a very proud heritage my whole life.
2006-07-21 10:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by yellow_jellybeans_rock 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got my share of German blood in me and then some. I am mostly of German descent. I am proud of that heritage as well as my Irish, Welsh, English, Scottish and Norwegian.
2006-07-21 09:45:44 · answer #2 · answered by kepjr100 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a quarter German by ancestry, but about half English and Scottish. I took German for a year in middle school and am using some German references in a cowboy melodrama I'm writing this summer.
2006-07-21 10:41:31 · answer #3 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meine Eltern sind Deutsch, auch meine Grosseltern. Sie kamen aus Sachsen. Ich lebe in Illinois, USA.
Translation, My parents are German, also my grandparents. They came from Saxony. I live in Illinois.
The original family line on my mother's side came from Saxony; on my father's side I believe they originated somewhere around what is now Stuttgart.
I have been working on refining my German...I took it for six years in HS/college, but have been doing some further study to try to improve my vocabulary and pronunciation skills, as well as trying to learn the "real" colloquial German that's actually spoken there.
2006-07-21 08:30:14 · answer #4 · answered by answerman63 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm mostly German, a little french and native american. The town my great grandfather was from either was germany before or after a war. Something about borders changing I don't remember, I need to find out before everyone who might know is gone
2006-07-21 19:38:40 · answer #5 · answered by crimsonwillow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
German/Irish here. Been to Germany; spent two years in Munich and two in Berlin (long before the wall came down). Not especially impressed. They were too fond of their bier und wurst in Munich and just entirely too uptight in Berlin. My first visit to Oktoberfest I kept running into locals who referred to me as "Ein auslander" and "Ein verdammt auslander!" So I'm a da*ned foreigner to them, eh? Well, I was right glad to come back to the USA after that. I'd like to believe not all native Germans are like that, but I met too many of 'em who were. You can have it; I didn't lose anything there and I ain't about to go back and visit those huhnefichters again!
2006-07-21 08:34:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good for you. I've got some German blood myself.
2006-07-21 08:19:59 · answer #7 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My great great grandfather moved here to Illinois from the Black Forrest region of Germany. I know he refused to speak or teach his children German, due to the times I suppose.
2006-07-21 16:28:57 · answer #8 · answered by Kim H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not directly German but I'm close, my grandfather was Austrian, spoke German, and was probably related to Germans if you go back far enough.
2006-07-21 09:15:22 · answer #9 · answered by Testika Filch Milquetoast 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hallo, bin ich auch Deutscher. My paternal grandfather immigrated to NY state from Germany (early 1900's).-His last name was Braun. My mother's side was Kaufmann and Vanderwalker (they immigrated to NY state before the Revolutionary War and the turn of the 20th century.).
2006-07-22 06:53:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋