I am thoroughly boringly germanic when it comes to my roots. There may be a bit of German in it, but even then from the Lower German language zone. So it is all the same.
From the side of my mother I stem from Groningen, and I inherited the hipdysplasia traits that come with that. My father came from Drenthe, and there may be some German right over the border influences there, but if there are, it is generations back.
I now live on the bottom of a former sea. From my father's side there were a lot of sailors. Many vessels wrecked here where I live. So living away from where I was born, I may still be walking on the crushed bones of my forefathers.