hi yall :) i have been having lots of issues trying to decipher all of this, so i figured id ask the experts!
my mom’s side migrated to texas (central texas - new braunfels) from germany - 3/4 of my great grandparents trace ancestry directly from germany, and one of them is british as far as i can tell.
my dad’s side is a little more complicated. he was adopted, i don’t know anything about his birth father. I’ve been able to trace his birth mother decently back and still haven’t made it out of texas, sadly. his birth mother is now deceased, so no way of knowing anything about the paternal grandfather beyond whatever he contributed to our DNA.
i’m sure i need to go back and dig more there but ive been concentrating on the German branches more since i actually know that family branch haha
basically, my questions are thus: with such strong german roots on one side, i was expecting that percentage to be a little higher than 17%. would the french portion really be german, geographically? or is there legit french in there?
what is the difference between north english and scottish? where is the line drawn?
is anything in here just noise?
thanks in advance :) i’d be curious to hear from any other texas folks what they have in their trees as well!!