Same here, the earliest ancestors I could trace lived in the 1600s in Germany. On the Russian side only into the 1800s.
I was particularly interested in the ancestors who moved from Germany to Russia in 1816, partly because I also moved around a lot. The ancestors on the Russian side also seemed to like living at the frontier regions of Russia.
My German great-greatparents actually moved to the US from Russia in 1895, but then came back.
