hello99 to Rainus: “If your family was originally from Stolin then they were never Ashkenazim/German Jews, rather they were Litvaks. So you have not “returned my family to the way of Ashkenaz”, as minhag Lita has many significant differences from minhag Ashkenaz.”
If he is an Ashkenazic Jew that means he has roots in Ashkenaz, and he therefore is going back to his roots.