#and i can't trace about 60% of my family tree

[ashcadence]

I had done a DNA test (I know, the companies are sketchy, but I was hitting brick walls with ancestry stuff and was using it as a last resort) anyway we were really confused when it said I was mostly French. I didn't know I was French. I was always told I was German (I live in a VERY German area. Lots of people around here still speak German)

Well, it did help with the brick walls and it turns out my ancestors were living along The Rhine river, the border of France and Germany, which is why I'm genetically more French. It's pretty sad when tracking my ancestors I was getting excited seeing things like Normandy or the area around Paris because it was something different than along the river

I'm assuming that because we live in an area that's very, rust belt meets the Appalachians, which is extremely German and Scotch-Irish, it was probably forgotten we were also French since we've been in America for so damn long

It's also an oddity to get French on a DNA test if you're from where I live hence I never considered my ancestors could be French

Either way, I found that really interesting