Who are the Transylvanian Saxons?

“We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.” – Bram Stoker, Dracula   The Saxons that settled in Transylvania have no relationship with the Anglo-Saxons, nor the Saxons found in the present German state of Saxony. They are a

DNA-THE STORY OF DISCOVERY

I never knew about my Transylvanian Saxon ancestry until I did genealogy research. My paternal grandfather was the youngest of 10 children, born in America, to Transylvanian Saxon parents who came to America in 1900. My grandfather spoke German and English, but never spoke much about his family’s origins. The only thing he said was