Our DNA profile says I’m 21% German but those German roots cover a number of different geographic areas Rhineland-Palatinate is in the middle Rhine River valley in the west of Germany, bordering France and the state of Saarland to the south, Luxembourg and Belgium to the west, and the states of North Rhine-Westphalia], Hessen and Baden-Wuttenberg to the north, east and southeast. For many years it was a part of Prussia. It is from this region that part of our German relatives emigrated. The Zimmer( Simmer) family was from the part of Prussia that is now Luxembourg., specifically Dalheim, Remich, Grevenmacher. This is rich farm country and this was the Simmer occupation and the occupation Peter Simmer took up when he settled in Manitowoc WI
Zimmer COA, Dalheim countryside