Germany

I feel my belly tickled that you were thinking of me. Yet, I have to disappoint you. Living in the country, I have no need of looking for such sites on the net. I also wouldn't know how to find German ancestors nowadays. I was born at the end of the Third Reich when every citizen had to have a book with the genealogy of the family. It was important to find out that one was of Germanic origin and not a descendant of an 'Untermensch'. (Wikipedia) "Untermensch: underman, sub-man, subhuman is a Naziterm for non-Aryan"inferior people" often referred to as "the masses from the East", that is Jews, Roma, and Slavs (Poles, Serbs, Russians, etc.). In fact, I'm a 'half Untermensch'. My mother's family belongs to the Sorbs (not Serbs!), a small Slavic tribe which lives in the south-east corner of Germany near the Polish and Czech borders. The languages are quite near to each other. If everybody speaks their own language, the others may understand a lot of it. The Sorbs were subpressed during the Third Reich. After the war, the socialist government decided to rehabiltate them. All street signs are bilingual in the area where they're living. Yet, they all speak German, too. I was born there. If we hadn't left the GDR (German Democratic Republic), I'd have attended the Sorbian secondary grammar school. As my parents were intellectuals on Day X and not workers or farmers, I wouldn't have been allowed to get a higher education. I'd probably become a tractorist or a milker. The socialist government tried to create a new kind of society. My cousin was the child of a carpenter and a cook, She was *invited* to attend secondary grammar school but didn't want to go. Now you've learnt something you didn't know before!

@JimBo452020 The good thing for you is that in your country nobody has ever been interested in this. You aren't half an Untermensch but only a quarter if you go back to your grandparents.

@MALUSE Wow Learned quite a lot. I am half Untermensch also. Mothers parents were Jews. And my dad and brothers were Milkers.

Thank you for the sites.I hope to get to them soon,There just doesn't seem to be enough hrs in a day.always lots of things to be done.