It all happened in Texas back in '89.

From what I've been told by my parents, the children were removed from their parents' home by CPS due to child abuse and neglect. Their mother, my dad's sister, and father fled the country and did no attempt in recovering their 3 children. My parents couldn't attain not even temporary custody because apparently they had to be married in order to do so. My uncle, my dads' brother, couldn't either for the same reason.

I assume the 3 children were adopted out. I have very little information about them. All I have is a shot record for each of them that show first and last name and DOB.

https://familysearch.org/search
(free)
has just 4,039 results for Name: Dennler
with that exact spelling.
By contrast they have over 150,000 for "Pack", which I know is uncommon, and over 28,000,000 for "Smith". So, it is really rare, OR it was spelled differently in the old country.

Here are the top 10 BMD collections from that site, ranked by number of records:

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 372 results
Switzerland, Baptisms, 1491-1940 178 results
United States Social Security Death Index 135 results
Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935 124 results
Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934 94 results
Iowa, Marriages, 1809-1992 59 results
Germany Marriages, 1558-1929 54 results
California, Birth Index, 1905-1995 44 results
Iowa, Births and Christenings, 1830-1950 39 results
Minnesota, Birth Index, 1935-2002 35 results

From that, I'd guess it was German/Swiss and a lot of them came to the US of A. As a side note, looking at the states they went to, they didn't want to suffer from chiggers or grits. One of them may be your great grandfather.

The proper term is "national origin" or "heritage", since "Nationality" means "citizenship", and a Australian Dennler would have an Australian passport, be an Australian and eat kangaroo steak every month, while a Canadian would carry a Canadian passport, be a Canadian and drink a lot of Moose Head beer.

We know what you mean, though. People make that mistake all the time here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
Well.. his parents are listed here. It does not trace his full genealogy, which you are welcome to try, if interested. I see nothing here about "distant roots" in Italy, so in genealogical terms, we have no clue if this is even a fact or just some rumor.
Have fun. And, if you want to do genealogy... step one is learning "if not proven, it is not a fact"

I posted the question incorrectly: This first comment is really my question:

If I have .TIFF files that contain more than one image (or JPEG files for that matter) in the same file, how would that show up when I upload onto my ancestry.com online family tree?

I've been scanning photos that have dates on the back of the photo, so I've made one file with a front image, and then a back image, all saved under the same file (one file name). When I view it in windows photo viewer it opens one file with 2 pages. It's an option available on my scanner.

How would this work in ancestry.com online family tree? Which image would show up? Am I better off just scanning the front image as it's own file (I also use rootsmagic as my computer database software and haven't tested in that system yet, either)?

I was just trying to scan them together in same file to ease my organization, and to make 'accidental seperation' of the front and back images of same picture (from deletion or some other reason) a non-issue.

Thanks!

The convention is that you are half of what each parent was, and each parent is half of what their parents were. So yes, you are 1/2 or 50% each if your father and mother were those.

Part of that convention is that where you are born doesn't count. So, if your dad's family was anything from Albanian to Zulu, but stayed in Germany for 10, 20, 30 ... years because his grandfather was in business there, he is still Albanian or Zulu or whatever.

Finally, you add common heritages. You don't have any, but someone may read this afterward. If, for instance, your 4 grandparents were Dutch, Dutch, English and French, you are 1/4 each, but you add the two Dutch for 1/2.