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I'm sure Matt's ancestry is European but he was born and raised in America.
The Austrian connection you note is from his sister Karen. She worked for a big worldwide corporation in Germany after she graduated from college. She and her family have since moved to Vienna. Matt visits them in Austria. That is where the German-Austria connection originates.

Oh yeah, now I remember. Thank you.

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A lot of people who are currently considered ethnically German or Austrian have names that appear to be of Slavic origin, and who ancestrally probably are.
Also are there a lot of people in Slavic nations who are ethnically Czech or Polish or whatever with German type names.

Czuchry in all likelihood is a Polish surname... the letter combination is Polish, as is the surname. Check out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Polish_Americans - Cached - Similar.

The "Austrian" thing may have come out of the time when people didn't admit to being Polish during the whole "Polish joke" and later Archie Bunker "meathead" phase.

Historically, Poland had been partitioned by the Russian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, and Habsburg Austria dividing up the Commonwealth lands among themselves. Three partitions took place:
The First Partition: August 5, 1772.
The Second Partition: January 23, 1793 (in which Austria did not participate).
The Third Partition: October 24, 1795. With this partition, the independent nation of Poland ceased to exist.

Poland later regained its independence and then after WWII was dominated by the Soviet Union.

Poles always embraced their ethnicity as patriotic nationalism during these times and because of that their culture survived.

Even my cousin would say she was Austrian because the area of our ancestry was ruled by the Austrians for a period of time. After Pope John Paul II assumed that papacy, all that changed, and "closet Poles" came out of the woodwork.

I am assuming the same is true for the Czuchry (CHOO-hrih) family.

Half of the people in that Wikipedia article are listed without a source, including Czuchry. I don't think he's ever claimed to be Austrian. It's interesting that his surname is spelled according to Polish orthography rules but that doesn't necessarily mean he's Polish. It's not uncommon for members of the Ukrainian minority in Poland to have their names spelled like that. Didn't a person who spoke with him on Twitter confirm he's of Ukrainian descent? Would make sense because the Czuchry's in Poland are clustered in the Sub-Carpathian province, close to the border with Ukraine. Here's the map:
http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/czuchry.html

But wasn't he supposed to have some European roots?With the exception of Native Americans, every American has European or Asian or African roots. Even if your family has been here for nearly 400 years, it came here from somewhere else. (I'm guessing you know this, but you've couched your question in a way that suggests you don't.)

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