Just kidding Gilbert. You don't see it in my user name but I am German as well. My Grandfather's family is from the Augsburg area. My grandmother emigrated from outside of Bern in 1904.

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Don't worry, wpr, I don't take trash talk outside "Let's talk Green Bay Packers" for serious. You're grandfather's were from the Augsburg area? Then I completely understand why they moved faaaaaaar away [grin1] [grin1] I was raised about 20 miles outside Augsburg, so I know what I'm speaking of. :-" As this is getting off topic, we should stop discussing here, but if you know the exact village, I'd be interrested to hear it. Good chance that I was there. Just shoot me a PM, if you want :)

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I have German roots on my Mom's side as well. My maternal great grandparents were from Germany. Although i don't know exactly where. I'd LOVE to find out more about them.

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My Grandma from my fathers side was 100% German and I also have some German in me from my mothers side too. I'm 47% German, 25% Irish and the rest is equally divided up through a few other ethnicitys.

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So you're a fuckin mutt like me then? I'm 5/8 German, 1/8 Irish, 1/8 English, and 1/8 French.

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and 2/3 turds sometimes. [grin1]

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I don't know the village. My grandparents are gone as are my dad and aunts and uncles. I will check with Mom

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hold the presses!

My brother called me tonight and said his granddaughter was working on her genealogy for a class project. My brother wanted to know if I had our family records. (We have a cousin who has worked very hard on this and shared it with Dad.) I told him I did not have it. My Mom must have our family's copies. My wife told me Mom gave me the files. My wife put them away in the closet. She just got them out and gave them to me.

My grandfather's grandfather (My Great-great grandfather) was born in Steinbach, Unterfranken, Bavaria. That is not really that close to Augsburg. My Great grandfather was born somewhere in Bavaria but the records I looked at don't say where. My Grandfather was born here in Illinois.

The papers I have are a mess. I am going to have to look through them and try to clean them up. Put it on a software program. A lot of the things I have are handwritten notes my Dad made. I see references to Baden and Bavaria on census papers but I am not sure exactly what I have.


EDIT- I just dug down through all the papers and I see a tourist guide book for Augsburg for 1997-98. Dad was not in Germany in 97 or 98. I am not sure why we have this as it is printed in German. He could only read a little bit of German not this much. I know there is a connection so I will have to keep looking and see if I can figure it out. (Some other day.) 5:30 AM is way too close.

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I think lots of wisconsinites have this type of mix (I do also ... I was told german, irish, english, bohemian)

Oops, it's only 43% but this is mine.

7/16 43.75% German
1/4 25.00% Irish
1/16 6.25% Norwegian
1/16 6.25% Swedish
1/16 6.25% French
1/16 6.25% Dutch
1/16 6.25% Belgian

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