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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 2137200, member: 5066&quot;]Yes it is, very complicated.</p><p>Fact is, most of the immigrants to Pennsylvania during the 18th-19th century were German SPEAKERS but came from all over the map in Europe, Germany of course the largest group but many german speakers from France ( Huguenots), Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria &amp; god knows where else!</p><p>The term &quot;Pennsylvania Dutch&quot; is mostly a myth and today is mostly a marketing type dealio. It&#039;s just good for business.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie32" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Another factor was WWll, NO ONE in PA or anywhere in USA&nbsp; wanted to be associated with Germany during this time for obvious reasons, the &quot;Dutch&quot; thingy worked well in this time frame!</p><p>My grandmother (an ethnic german) somehow became a native american <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> during that war, even though one of her sons never came home and is buried in the American cemetery in Normandy, France. She insisted until the day she died that she was NOT of German descent ( she was), obviously granny took that war very hard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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