I was able to find out where my great grandfather’s mother was born. Breslau, according to the 1921 census, which was then in the Prussian province of Silesia and is now in south western Poland (Wrocław). I have not been able to find where in Germany my great grandfather was born.
My 4 ancestor autosomal results on Gedmatch all show combinations of East German and North West European (I’m half Dutch as well), the East German being the odd one out, which seems to correspond to my great grandfather’s ancestry. In my father’s case Austrian and NW European. It’s interesting to note that we have a close 111 marker Y-DNA match (distance 4) with someone from Bad Ischl, Austria.
Most of our autosomal matches have ancestry from former parts of Prussian Silesia but now live west of the Oder in Germany. Most Germans left Silesia after the Second World War and settled west of the Oder in Germany, although there is still a German speaking minority Poland, in Silesia.
