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Choosing a minhag based on ancestry

500 years ago, the halacha was clear -- if you moved from Location A, a single community with one clear set of minhagim, to Location B, with its clear minhagim, and you intended to stay there, then ...
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If someone's ancestry was a mix of Hassidic and non-Hassidic Ashkenazi, what Nusach should they daven?

Obviously, someone should talk to a rabbi about their particular situation; if there's a particular community or practice that particularly speaks to them, that's worth something. But for theory's ...
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