Ancestory is interesting. My maternal grandpa said we were black dutch, blonde dutch, highland dutch, lowland dutch, and the whole damn dutch. In other words, kraut. On my dad's side, they all came from the same two counties in North Carolina and eventually settled in the Ozark county area of southern Missouri around 1820 or so and live there to this day. Some moved to Oklahoma. They first migrated to North Carolina from Scotland I believe. Here they mixed heavily with the local natives and made their way west to Missouri where other mixed bloods settled (perhaps by force?). The only exception was my dad's dad who was German. That is where my name ( Egger ) comes from ( Austria, Bavaria ).