wow, our family geneology is just a bunch of dry facts.
We can trace our German side back to Germany at the time of the French Revolution, then we just disappear.
We used to like to imagine that we were French Nobility who fled France (figures) and reinvented ourselves in Germany.
Oh well, between the French wine and the German and Irish beer, I could never be a Mormon!
If your family were Huguenots they may well have been French nobility...
Huguenote fled into the Protestant countries...Germany, Holland, England etc...
They changed the spelling etc of their names to hide out in the new country...
Ive got lots of beer and wine in my veins from my tavern owning beer making ancestors
One ancestor had a trading post where he would have made his good German beer..
LOL
One of my ancestors made some of the first beer in NYC...
Red Lion Beer...
He had a tavern near Wall street..
He was mentioned with his tavern in a PBS program about early NYC about a or so ago year ago...
His name was Isaac De Forest...
My 8th g grandfather...