Sounds like your old family and mine probably would have agreed on a lot. My gramps immigrated from Germany( hidden Jewish on one side, royla lineage on the other) and spoke German and yiddish but irregular as German and Yiddish was frown upon through WW-1 and II. Other side was Ukrainian pogroms so they ran to Germany and eventually America somewhere in the later nineteen hundreds. Other side best I know was Swedish and they migrated somewhere around the 1850’s but don’t know much.. One died in the First Bush, other in Clinton years. Gramps liked the Birch society, was a doctor and a Colonel in the army. I got most my views in politics from grandpa.
They way life really works. 😀