I studied mine and came to the rather startling conclusion that I was of German Catholic stock in East Prussia, along a narrow belt that was controlled by Poland.
Completely unknown to me. The rest of my family is a mixture of Anglo-Irish Church of Ireland folks, Anglicans from England and Lutherans from Norway.
It was quite a surprise to me. I was 100 percent confident that my family were German protestants.
My Moravian bunch have historically Jewish surnames and just sort of materialize in Switzerland, Alsace, Pfalz, etcetera in the mid-late 1400’s. I’ve often wondered if they weren’t conversos driven out of Spain in the Inquisition or something.
I have a line of Carrolls from Maryland. Historically, they well could have been Catholic, but no evidence of it, all Protestant as far back as available records indicate on this continent.
Of course, go back far enough with nearly any Protestant line and they’re going to end up Catholic, that’s just the way things were prior.