Last year I finally started working on my extended family history, and I had my DNA done. I discovered that I'm 35% Germanic Empire. That blew my mind, as I never knew any of that. My Mom was born in Canada, and as I said, my Dad in Holland. The German connection is on my mother's side of the family. I'm also 59% England, Wales and Northwestern Europe, plus 2% Ireland and Scotland, 2% Norway, and 2% Sweden. The German connections go back to royalty and aristocracy. For example Friedrich I Von Sachsen, Elector of Saxony is supposed to be my 15th great-grandfather. His wife was Catherine von Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Before I learned about my family history, I wondered why my son loved Germany so much. Must be those family genes brought him to it.
I've also had the same strange coincidences in my life with England. I visited England in 2006 and 2007, but now am only finding out the relationship of all the places I visited back then that have family connections. Just yesterday I discovered that Joan I of Navarre, a great-grandmother of mine, and wife of Philip IV of France (destroyer of the Templars), died at Chateau Vincennes in Paris. I've been to Paris twice. The second time I went with a co-worker. We had several hours to spare before having to catch the Eurostar back to London, so we decided to go to the Chateau Vincennes. Of all the places we could have picked, we went there. Now I find there's a connection with that too. I just wish I wasn't an old lady now, and unable to travel like I did when I was younger.
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏ̯tʃʔameʁiˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 44.2 million in 2018, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey.[1] German Americans account for about one third of the total ethnic German population in the world.