virginia: I was searching my genealogy files and found my great-great-grandfather, Charles Leinewebber was a Prussian and moved to Virginia around the late 1800's. What is that called?|||Germany became one country in 1871 & that included Prussia. My grandfather was proud of being Prussian but since he was born after the unification, he formally became German. His papers say "Germany" & his parents were from Germany & all spoke German. Therefore, your GG Grandfather was German. The area he came from was formerly called Prussia. There was Eastern Prussia & Western Prussia. It would be like "New England States" in the USA; just an area within Germany. My grandfather was from an area called Selesia which was divided into upper & lower partitions so tecnichnically, he was born in the town of Guttentag, Ober (upper) Selesia, Germany (formerly within Prussia).|||If your gg grandfather was born in Prussia, he was Prussian unless when he migrated to the US he became a US citizen, in which case his Nationality would have been American and his ethnicity Prussian. Prussia is now part of Germany, although people born in what was Prussia would generally not have wanted to be called German.|||Emigration, when people back home in Prussia talk about it. Immigration, when the Virginians talk about it. People did it all the time. All the white people have Immigrant ancestors. All the black ones do too, although most didn't have any say in the matter. Even the Indians came here from Asia, 10