Britian And Germany Allies?

Well I've done a lot of work researching my family tree and have got back to the 1660s on a few lines. What occurs to me after all this research is how mixed up the lines can be. the branches of the family spread all over the country, mixed with families from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Australia, Canada and America. There is even a group of my ancestors who emagrated to Germany from and English coal mining area to a German mining area in the 1860s and the name is still in the phone book around that part of Germany.

This means that during both world wars there were quite likely soldiers with the same name from my family in opposing armies.

My main point however is that I don't believe that there is such a thing as a 'pure' blood line if 'pure' is the right word. If you think of the fluid history of europe over the last 2000 years, I find it amazing that anyone could think that with all the wars with their refugees, economic migration, changing borders, inter marraige and many other factors, labels like Angles, Saxons, Franks or any other of the northern tribes could be anything but conceptual labels today.

If you follow anyone's 'blood line' you'll find quite a lot of everything in there at some point. Common blood line? That'll be all Europeans then, but it never stopped us fighting.

 

Starting off with the Royal Families european lineage. That mix could probably be mirrored in many cases in Britain.

 

I found a website which says that of an northenglish city -made a blood test which sayd that 60% of the english there had anglo/saxon or denish ancestors because the blood of them was quite identic with the blood of the ones who live in northgermany / denmark today.