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there was this thing called the american war of independence, you might have heard of it, it was kind of a big deal back in the day, and as a result many report their ancestry as either american or anything exotic. so if they’ve got a great grandfather of german ancestry and a german surname, they report german. where i live lots of folks say they’re ‘irish’ when they mean ‘scotch-irish’ ie northern english who relocated to ulster plantation and then to appalachia.
