Holy shit, O'Keefe!
That kid has gold plated moxie.
That'd be wild.
There are about 200 legitimate lineage societies for everything from the DAR to Descendants of New England Witches.
There are genealogy autists who have picked apart family lines in America dating back to Jamestowne. Ship passenger manifests, burial sites, places of origin in England using English church rolls as backup, and of late, they're nailing it down even tighter with DNA evidence integrated directly into genealogy databases.
Mormon Church has giant database at www.familysearch.org - it's free, so any anon can jump in there and go to town.
Genealogautists will be happy to school us for days on end if need be.
You all know that Germans comprise the largest single ethnic group of American immigrants, right? Germany was at war so often, long before WWI and WWII, that people GTFO. More of you have German ancestry than you probably realize.