What is your ancestry(Heritage)? No Rascism!

[byzantine catholic]

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[AeroEngineer]

Why would you even think it necessary to say "no racism" ?

And what has this got to do with Washington Politics?

[Patranus]

Cracker

[byzantine catholic]

Why would you even think it necessary to say "no racism" ?

And what has this got to do with Washington Politics?Just to make sure there is no rascism. We are called the melting pot so I just want to find who is in the melting pot.:)

[byzantine catholic]

CrackerIs that supposed to mean white?:eh:

[Long Island Bob]

I'm a mutt.

Irish German and Swiss mostly but also a teeny tiny bit of Arab and/teeny tiny bit of African American

[sgdp]

Irish, Scottish, German, Dutch.

[johnrocks]

Heinz 57....English,Irish,American Indian

[Pudge]

Swedish, Irish, Sicilian. Maybe a little English in there somewhere too.

[ModerateVoice]

Scot, Irish, English, French, and Swede.

[byzantine catholic]

English, Irish, German, Dutch, and Cherokee.:)

[Patranus]

Is that supposed to mean white?:eh:

Sorry, I coudn't resist after the "no racism" remark

Irish/Welsh

[Antrel]

Half-Spanish, Half-Libyan. My Spanish family doesn't dance well, and my Libyan family isn't beheading people, so I'm rather dissapointed in my heritage.

[Kentucky Thinker]

English, Irish, Cherokee and some Eastern European, not sure which country though.

[EmergentAurora]

I'm adopted, so I've always hated this question as it feels like everyone has an answer but me

[byzantine catholic]

English, Irish, Cherokee and some Eastern European, not sure which country though.How much Cherokee?:):hug::shhh:

[markdido]

Italian / Ukrainian

[PuckHappy]

Why would you even think it necessary to say "no racism" ?

Because those Scottsmen are SO against the Irish!


(funny story.... My son and I were in Sweden for a hockey tourn. the Sweds wanted to know how our sur name could be Scottish but I looked Irish and son looked like a Finn.)

[Proud American Always]

I am Polish, German, Austrian, American. I am the 2nd generation here. My Mom only spoke Polish but had to learn English to enter school! Gee how things have changed over the decades!

[Antrel]

I'm adopted, so I've always hated this question as it feels like everyone has an answer but meWhaaaat, do what most people who take advantage of the anonymity of internet do, say you're 1/2 Navajo, 1/4 Portuguese, and 1/4 Black. Except you may be right!

[MarkyS]

Half Irish and half Russian, which means I have an ethnic responsibility to be a drunk, but I'm not.

I gotta work on that.....

M

[PuckHappy]

I am Polish, German, Austrian, American. I am the 2nd generation here. My Mom only spoke Polish but had to learn English to enter school! Gee how things have changed over the decades!


If your mother learned to speak english BEFORE entering school then you are also part smart!!

[ThrowCop]

1/2 American Indian & 1/2 German.

I have a couple of jokes about that that are so un-PC that if posted, I would likely not be seen on these boards for 48+ hours....


:))

[superjames1992]

I am 1/8 Hopi Indian (from my mother's side), 7/8 white (from both English - from my mother's side - and Scandinavian ancestry - from my father's side), and a small negligible amount of Shawnee (or maybe Erie) Indian from my father's side, which comes from a strange marriage back in the 1800s in which they had to move into the Northwest Territories because it was illegal for a white man to marry an Indian in Ohio.

BTW, looks like we have a lot of white-American Indian people here. Do white-American Indian people have a tendency to be more conservative than others or something? :D

[rhet 2]

I am Polish, German, Austrian, American. I am the 2nd generation here. My Mom only spoke Polish but had to learn English to enter school! Gee how things have changed over the decades!



Poland's loss. Our gain.

My father's family is Scots, exported to Ulster by Cromwell (at gunpoint) -- jumped ship in Nova Scotia, He married a Quaker lady in Lancaster PA, moved to the Carolinas, and fought under Marion in the Carolinas, including at Yorktown.

Mama's family is Scot-Irish, also Presbyterian -- were living in Holland with the Brownists, boarded the ship right after the Mayflower. Their kids cut out for PA and NY and VA as quickly as they could.

Through the following decades, family in the Old Country came to join them.

The entire human race descends from people who moved to someplace from someplace else, sometimes because they wanted to and sometimes at gunpoint because somebody else forced them to.

North America and the United States is just the last place they landed, because here they're free to make of themselves whatever they choose without guns pointed at their skulls to force them to become what somebody else demands.

Or, at least, that's the way it used to be. We'll just have to see if we can manage to preserve Equal Opportunity to live your own vision despite folks who want to force people to live according to their own artificial "vision" of America and artificially construct a culture that pleases them alone.

[byzantine catholic]

I am 1/8 Hopi Indian (from my mother's side), 7/8 white (from both English - from my mother's side - and Scandinavian ancestry - from my father's side), and a small negligible amount of Shawnee (or maybe Erie) Indian from my father's side, which comes from a strange marriage back in the 1800s in which they had to move into the Northwest Territories because it was illegal for a white man to marry an Indian in Ohio.

BTW, looks like we have a lot of white-American Indian people here. Do white-American Indian people have a tendency to be more conservative than others or something? :D1/2 Cherokee!:)

[Claymore]

Scottish, Irish, English, Dutch, German, Iriquios, Mohawk, Cree, Blackfoot, Cherokee, and whatever else snuck in there.

I'm a Proud All-American MUTT!

[BasicGreatGuy]

I am just a beercan on the highway of life, and I don't even drink. :frown:

Cherokee, English, and I am not sure what else. We have hit a snag in being able to finish researching the family lineage. Supposedly, the family came over on the Mayflower.

[Ballygrl]

Irish, Italian and Scottish.

[PheonixOps]

My Mom's side: Black/Native American/Puerto Rican and probably a "splash of Irish"
My Dad's side: Scot/Irish/Native American

[byzantine catholic]

My Mom's side: Black/Native American/Puerto Rican and probably a "splash of Irish"
My Dad's side: Scot/Irish/Native AmericanWhich side is Cherokee?:)

[PheonixOps]

Because those Scottsmen are SO against the Irish!


(funny story.... My son and I were in Sweden for a hockey tourn. the Sweds wanted to know how our sur name could be Scottish but I looked Irish and son looked like a Finn.)

Don't forget that the Vikings did invade and occupy the Isles for a pretty long time...........

[Hellsbane]

Scotts, African, Native American, Heinz 57

[PheonixOps]

I am Polish, German, Austrian, American. I am the 2nd generation here. My Mom only spoke Polish but had to learn English to enter school! Gee how things have changed over the decades!


Polish Town USA(Riverhead) and the festivals are always pretty cool!

[noelle12]

English, Welsh, and tiny bits of Scottish, German, Dutch, French and American Indian (Iroquois).

In other words, a mutt (and proud of it).

[Drew2]

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Irish, Italian, and English.

[hillplus]

French, German, Italian, Swiss, Scottish, English and a small amount of Cherokee. The usual American Mutt!

[PheonixOps]

Which side is Cherokee?:)

My Mom's, but both sides came from SC, your neck of the woods.........

[BillBrown]

Scottish, Irish, English and German

[Chuangtzu]

Sephardim (Italia, perhaps also some Dalmatian and Venetian, but not Roman Italkim), Neapolitan, Abruzzi - maternal

Kentucky/Tennessee Tsalagi - paternal

[ben41281]

English, French, Dutch, and Polish. Basically an American Mutt!

[khigh]

German, Italian, English, and a dash of Irish and Scottish. My great great grandmother on my father's side was half Indian (the country).

[amw10]

german,scottish,irish,french,indian,dutch.

[Mimiheart]

Adopted. No idea on my birth family. Red(dish) hair, blue eyes, tall.

My adopted family, Eastern European Jews.

[Dual867PowerMac]

Mostly Scots with some German and American Indian.

[orbitaldecay]

Mostly Welsh.

[Samm]

Half Irish and half Russian, which means I have an ethnic responsibility to be a drunk, but I'm not.

I gotta work on that.....

M

Reminds me of a joke...

And Irishman and a Russian walk out of a bar...


Hey!... it could happen.

:whistle:

[Claymore]

Scottish, Irish, English, Dutch, German, Iriquios, Mohawk, Cree, Blackfoot, Cherokee, and whatever else snuck in there.

I'm a Proud All-American MUTT!


My forebearers were Equal Opportunity horny.:mrgreen:

[Claymore]

Reminds me of a joke...

And Irishman and a Russian walk out of a bar...


Hey!... it could happen.

:whistle:

Of their own volition, or was the Dutchman throwing them out?:confused:

[Claymore]

Half my ancestors came to America on the early boats (probably a step ahead of the law) and the other half met them on the shore (probably thinking: "There goes the neighborhood. Hide the silver"):confused:

[Claymore]

Originally Posted by Claymore
My forebearers were Equal Opportunity horny.:mrgreen:
Grrrr....:flag:

Well,,, you can't drink and hunt ALL the time.

[TinCan]

me: Celtic & Indigenous
wife: Celtic, Indigenous, French, Swiss

[ScottFree]

Mostly Irish. Some English.

[super cool ski instructor]

Mostly English and Bulgarian with a dash of Irish, Cherokee, and I believe Portuguese.

[curtis123]

Scandinavian-American.

I can still feel the remnants of horns on my head.
I love lutefisk.

[Lady Liberty]

Mostly Irish blood. One Scottish grandfather on my mother's side.

[AmericanMuscle]

Maternal Grandparents from Ireland~

Paternal Grandparents- German somewhere down the line and Adopted.

Every racial joke offends me! ;)

[Celtic Pax]

100% French ancestry from both sides of the family by way of Canada. May be related to 3 brothers who came from France in the early 1600s. BUT, I will never be Franco-American!!!!!:))

[RickRhetoric]

Spanish (Spain)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/challenged/smallspanishflag.jpg

[Claymore]

Spanish (Spain)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/challenged/smallspanishflag.jpg


Then you bring the Paella and the oranges.

[Claymore]

100% French ancestry from both sides of the family by way of Canada. May be related to 3 brothers who came from France in the early 1600s. BUT, I will never be Franco-American!!!!!:))

O-OH! Spaghetti-Os!

[BillyBobUSA]

3/4 Anglo, 1/8 Scot, and an assortment of French, Cajun, Jewish, Cherokee and Irish.

In other words, I am an American Blend as they might say at a dog show.

woof

[Rhonda]

English, Irish, German, and my Grandmother was Cherokee ...that is all I am aware of right now

I search Family Heritage and am still finding out lots of interesting stuff

But my soul is America :flag: I am glad that my ancestors decided that this country was worth leaving Europe for

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

From the Mayflower on...all American girl here with a dab of American Indian...Mom's Father's Mother walked the Trail of tears...

before the Mayflower...whole new kettle of fish..lol

Dad side..English blue bloods with a nice side order of German...to this day I remember my Grandmother and her 'tea's '. Wee little people on Dad's side...all the woman are tiny and small bone framed, the men taller and willowy.

Mom's side....Irish with inter marrying with the Welsh and once here in the new land, American Indian. The woman on mom's side are known for their great legs and fantastic shoulders. :redface: My maternal grandmother in her youth was the type of beauty that stopped people cold in the streets, same as my mother...to bad I look more like my dad's side of the family.

As I read the thread, I noticed many of us come from similar back grounds of ancestry...makes ya wonder if any of us are distance relatives to one another? :whistle:

I hit a complete dead spot in genealogy research when I hit the 1500's Irish side of the family. Most records burned due to being stored in local churches. I've gotten as far as the late 1400's on Dad's side...then hit a wall. Don't know how far I can go back...so I keep digging. Fascinating stuff to be sure. :mrgreen:

~Mysty

[byzantine catholic]

Like I said 1/2 Cherokee and 1/2 European which consists of English, Irish, German, and Dutch.:mrgreen::))Oh and we are Roman Catholic!:razz:

[CaptainPike]

I can only trace my family back a few generations, so it's hard to tell. I consider myself an average white guy.

[Dreamy]

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What is your ancestry(Heritage)? No Rascism! (http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?p=51202951#post51202951)

Storkish :whistle:

[Dreamy]

Racial sensitivety offends me! ;)

Grrrr :flag:

[Claymore]

,,,As I read the thread, I noticed many of us come from similar back grounds of ancestry...makes ya wonder if any of us are distance relatives to one another?,,, :whistle:



~Mysty

Any Dodge, Harness, Kerns or Dissellhorst would be some sort of kin to me.

[Dreamy]

:)) So thats where you got those wings! At first i was like hmm....Pelican?....Nah....Loon,maybe? Hmm....Stork?

Still trying to figure out where those firey red horns of yours came from small town white boy. :twisted: At first I was like hmmm...Bull?....Nah....Buck?,maybe? Hmmmm....spawn of....

:))

[Claymore]

Still trying to figure out where those firey red horns of yours came from small town white boy. :twisted: At first I was like hmmm...Bull?....Nah....Buck?,maybe? Hmmmm....spawn of....

:))

Sheep?


"How was it for you, Darling?"
"Oh, not BAAAAAAAAAH-D":twisted:

[Dreamy]

Sheep?


"How was it for you, Darling?"
"Oh, not BAAAAAAAAAH-D":twisted:

Claymore,you should have stopped while you were ahead. You had a winning post a few back. :))

I am .5 Irish + .25 English + .25 German=1.0 American:flag:

[SalemsLot211]

German, Irish, English

[Samm]

Full blood Swede on my mother's side; German, Austrian, French, English & Swede on my fathers side.

I mostly identify with my maternal heritage; I love pickled herring and schnapps... but I hate Lutefisk. :sick:

[sirbeigealot]

100% Portuguese on both sides...but always an American first.

[Samm]

I thought you were half Russian?

Whatever gave you that idea? Just because I can see Russians from my house? :eh:


;)

[F9thRet]

Cherokee/German.

I see a new blanket and get ****ed off and want to invade Poland.

Stephen

[educ8er]

German

[migbuster]

Gradma tole me i'm a Heinz 57 alot of blood of different races flow within me...Swedish/english/ Shawneen Indian just to name a few.

[angelicmadrigal]

Long list actually:

MOMS SIDE
grandmother's side: English, German, French
grandfather: Sicilian


DAD'S SIDE
grandmother's side: Polish
grandfather's side: Native American (Cherokee), European (not sure which countries)

[CID_0687]

Scottish
Irish
English
German
Cherokee
Potowotami

There's probably more there, but these are the ones I'm aware of.

[spearmaster]

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Appalachian. :):flag::flag::flag:

[Samm]

Appalachian. :):flag::flag::flag:

Appalachian is not an ancestral heritage... it is a genetic defect. :razz:



just kidding. ;)

[Cav Scout]

Danske.

Fill the mug and hand over the salt fish.

http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/1250_viking.gif

[Ninjacorpse]

English, German, Irish, native American, etc...

[PaulRevere]

I am 100% German.....On my mothers side my grandfather, uncle fought for the Wermacht....Also another of my mother's uncles fought for the United States at Normandy....Only after the war did my grandfather and uncle were within one mile of each other on opposite sides.....My grandfather's cousin Hermann von Fegelin was married to Greta Braun and his character is featured in film "Das Fall"

[tislaw]

German, Bohemian, Native American, English, Irish, Scots (as you can tell, mostly Celtic ;))

[jeepers]

Can only go back about four generations, but all Polish. Hitler's 'burnt earth' policy basically did a number on geneology research. What information we have before that is spotty, tangential and completely inadequate.

Stereotypically, I"m supposed to drink and like bowling. Not my cup of tea, but cabbage birds are the bomb, would prefer potatoes as a food group and agree with my relatives that 'food is love'. :lol:

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

Can only go back about four generations, but all Polish. Hitler's 'burnt earth' policy basically did a number on geneology research. What information we have before that is spotty, tangential and completely inadequate.

Stereotypically, I"m supposed to drink and like bowling. Not my cup of tea, but cabbage birds are the bomb, would prefer potatoes as a food group and agree with my relatives that 'food is love'. :lol:

Gotta ask...what are cabbage birds? Totally agree with you about potato's....how I love those little spuds; specially when coupled with a rare steak! lol

~Mysty

[Claymore]

Some cousins more industrious than I have done a lot of family history, even in the days before Ancestry.com. I was surprised they were able to trace so far back. Many people joke that they will find "horse thieves" and such, but the "horse thieves" didn't keep records so their lineages probably got lost in the shuffle.
Having spent most of my life thinking that I was 1/2 English (well, 1/2 "British Isles -- English, Scottish, Irisn), with a little Native American, and 1/2 Greek from my father's side (both paternal grandparents immigrated from Greece), I found out the truth just a few years ago.
My "English" family had more French than anything else.
My "Greek" family was part Turkish, seeing as how a Great Grandmother was Turkish and not Greek.
I just consider myself an "Okie" as both parents were from Oklahoma, and tell people that we are the only family of "Greek Okies" they will ever meet.

Tell them you were digging a hole in the backyard and struck olive oil.:mrgreen:

Boomer Sooner!

[jeepers]

Gotta ask...what are cabbage birds? Totally agree with you about potato's....how I love those little spuds; specially when coupled with a rare steak! lol

~Mysty

Gwumpki...Hamburger, rice and onion, rolled into a Twinkie like shape (but thicker) and wrapped in a cabbage leaf. Covered with a tomato based sauce. Throw the leftover cabbage in wedges in the sauce. Roast covered in the oven in a roasting pan. Serve with boiled potatoes on the side. If you really want to go for it, a side of corn.

MASSIVE CARB FEST. Make sure that you have pepto on hand. HEAVEN. LOL :))

[jeepers]

A DIFFERENT potato recipe, Mom calls them 'Polish potatoes'. De riguer at Easter with that ham.

Boil up about five pounds of russets, chunked until fork tender (not mushy or hard). Immediately drain off the water and put the pan back onto the hot burn, with the heat on as LOW as you can. Sprinkle with salt and steam OUT the water. It's basically about drying the potatoes out so that theyr'e not soggy. GENTLY push the potatoes side to side occasionally (so that they don't burn, adjusting (or turning off) the heat until they dry out, are flaky all over. Do NOT just randomly stir or the potatoes will break apart. Pour into a wide bowl. THAT is how you put boiled ones on the side.

However, for this recipe, you keep going. While those potatoes were boiling previously, melt some real butter in a skillet and trhow in some minced green onion (all parts). Have that ready to go. When you put the potatoes into the bowl, immediately pour the butter OVER THE TOP of the potatoes and fold it once or twice.

Serve with a REAL ham ...steamed asparagus...Chicago rye bread, Plochman's mustard... OMG, I'm hungry! LOL

[jeepers]

Btw, the author of the aforementioned food product commentaries takes no responsibility for the condition of anyone's arteries or the resultant increase of body weight that may or may not come if they attempt to recreate and ingest any of the above.

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

Gwumpki...Hamburger, rice and onion, rolled into a Twinkie like shape (but thicker) and wrapped in a cabbage leaf. Covered with a tomato based sauce. Throw the leftover cabbage in wedges in the sauce. Roast covered in the oven in a roasting pan. Serve with boiled potatoes on the side. If you really want to go for it, a side of corn.

MASSIVE CARB FEST. Make sure that you have pepto on hand. HEAVEN. LOL :))

Ohhhh...sounds good! Got the step by step recipe by any chance? Would love to try it! Pepto at the ready....hehehehe

Those potato's sound fab too! But then anything with potato's is my friend....lol.

Thanks!

~Mysty

[Sketch]

I am a Fertile Crescent – American.

[Samm]

I just knew that eventually this would evolve into a recipe thread... :D

[Mithrastan]

I'm so sick of Notre Dame & St. Patrick's day, that I am almost ready to deny my Irish heritage. But I am proud of my English, Welsh, Scottish, German, and Choctaw side.

[Mithrastan]

Gwumpki...Hamburger, rice and onion, rolled into a Twinkie like shape (but thicker) and wrapped in a cabbage leaf. Covered with a tomato based sauce. Throw the leftover cabbage in wedges in the sauce. Roast covered in the oven in a roasting pan. Serve with boiled potatoes on the side. If you really want to go for it, a side of corn.

MASSIVE CARB FEST. Make sure that you have pepto on hand. HEAVEN. LOL :))

Golabki are my favorite things in the world.

[badkarma]

Scotch-Irish, Bohemian, and Sicilian.

[Buschb]

German,French and Bohemian/Czech

[Residential Bob]

Norwegian, English, Maine Coon.

[byzantine catholic]

1/2 Cherokee and 1/2 European which is mostly Irish and German but also Dutch and English!:mrgreen:And my family is Roman Catholic!

[countmein]

European mutt. I am Irish, German, Scottish, English with a little native American thrown in the mix way back.

[Samm]

Sure a lot of you guys had ancestors who fraternized with the Indians... Gotta wonder who's idea it was, the Indian's or the Settler's. :think:

[Claymore]

Sure a lot of you guys had ancestors who fraternized with the Indians... Gotta wonder who's idea it was, the Indian's or the Settler's. :think:


Hormones are color blind.:mrgreen:

[coyote1880]

I was born to the Tséníjíkiní and for the Yé’ii Dine’é.

[khigh]

Sure a lot of you guys had ancestors who fraternized with the Indians... Gotta wonder who's idea it was, the Indian's or the Settler's. :think:

I was really shocked when I couldn't find any Native Americans in my family history. Indians (the country), yes, but no Native Americans.

[byzantine catholic]

Sure a lot of you guys had ancestors who fraternized with the Indians... Gotta wonder who's idea it was, the Indian's or the Settler's. :think:My dad's idea!:))

[psyko kat]

(father's side), German/ /(mother's side), Hungarian.

[FidelisAdMortem]

All my family originates from Germany.

I was born here and therefore I'm an American with ancestory from Germany.

[mdk190]

German/Native American-Mother's side.

Polish/Serbian-Father's side.

[tislaw]

Awesome, a couple of more Bohemians :mrgreen:

It's something I rarely see in these threads or when I was doing my geneology. :)

What areas of Bohemia? Most of mine came from the Landskron area

http://www.moravian-connection.com/master-o/p3781.htm#i37811

Here's an awesome database that includes my geneology and tons of others. :)

[byzantine catholic]

All my family originates from Germany.

I was born here and therefore I'm an American with ancestory from Germany.German too!:mrgreen:

[PaleoPaul]

English, French, Puerto Rican, Corsican, Sicilian, Swiss, German, and I'm discovering some other interesting details 'bout my ancestors with that ancestry site. Its awesome.

[Alaric]

My surname is Irish. My ancestors from which I derive my surname arrived in America in the mid 1600's and were part of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia. My ancestor from which my mothers maiden name descends first settled in Massachusetts and arrived here before 1633 from Wales. He was constable of Salem during the witch trials.

My most recently immigrated ancestors are my paternal grandmother's parents, who immigrated from Scotland shortly before she was born.

My grandfather was very much into genealogical research and passed down quite a bit of information about our family ancestry. A few other interesting things that I have found out.
Charlemagne is my 40th great grandfather.
King Henry I of England is my 27th great grandfather.
King Henry I of France is my 30th great grandfather.
King Louis IV of France is my 35th great grandfather.
King Robert The Bruce is my 21st great grandfather.
King Olaf III of Sweden is my 31st great grandfather.

Nearly everyone who is of European descent can trace at least one line into royalty somewhere. As soon as you do that you find tons of ancestral links stretching back many centuries, which makes checking up on your ancestry really interesting.

Sometimes you can find seemingly unlikely relationships. My personal favorite: I am related to both Robert E. Lee (gg-grandfather), and Ulysses S. Grant. (ggg-uncle) :))

Since I have had ancestors living on the North American continent for nearly four centuries, I prefer to claim my heritage is American.

[spearmaster]

Appalachian is not an ancestral heritage... it is a genetic defect. :razz:



just kidding. ;)

Hey there's some communities around this region that made me wonder if that wasn't true. All they lacked was a weird looking kid playing a banjo on someone's front porch. :))

Seriously though my ancestry is German/English/Cherokee/Italian. I was able to trace my maternal grandfather's English ancestors all the way back to 13 colonies.

[FidelisAdMortem]

German too!:mrgreen:

I have the blonde hair/blue eyes to prove it, lol.

[JeffR]

On my father's side - Lithuanian
On my mother's side - not completely sure. I think it's a mix of English, Irish, and some other Western European countries.

[MarkyS]

Reading through these, what's apparent is that most of us are mutts, to one degree or another. Very few pure-breads. Ahhhh America! Land of the mutts, and loving it!

I'm also surprised to see how many of us have native-American strains. I do, on my Irish side. They came over during the 1800s, and made their way West, as teamsters. (That's when they really mastered teams!) My great, great granny was a Cherokee lass that caught the eye of one of those Irish teamsters.

My Russian side is much more pure blood. They came over to escape the Russian revolution, and went from aristocrats in Moscow to tenement-dwellers in New York in one turbulent year.

M

[Gaby77]

Dutch all the way. My family wasn't very adventurous, apparently. On my mom's side they strayed a little into Germany, but that's about it.
Jewish on my father's side, but they traveled around even less than on my mom's side.

[skyyyguy]

All around mutt, German, French, Irish, Scottish, Swedish, English and Native American

[Constantine the Great]

?
Primarily Greek with a bit of Saracen in the mix.

[alexz2317]

My Mom is full German so yeah. And my dad's ancestry is Polish.

[Haplo]

Portuguese and German mostly

[HeadOnStraight]

My cousin is our family's genealogist, she has traced our grandmother's side of the family, and we are a real mix, everything from direct descendants of a Sioux Indian chief all the way to the King of France, and if you can believe it Agustus Ceaser.... and maybe even all the way back to Adam and Eve. ;)

French/Sioux/Abenaki/Czechoslovakian

[tislaw]

My surname is Irish. My ancestors from which I derive my surname arrived in America in the mid 1600's and were part of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia. My ancestor from which my mothers maiden name descends first settled in Massachusetts and arrived here before 1633 from Wales. He was constable of Salem during the witch trials.

My most recently immigrated ancestors are my paternal grandmother's parents, who immigrated from Scotland shortly before she was born.

My grandfather was very much into genealogical research and passed down quite a bit of information about our family ancestry. A few other interesting things that I have found out.
Charlemagne is my 40th great grandfather.
King Henry I of England is my 27th great grandfather.
King Henry I of France is my 30th great grandfather.
King Louis IV of France is my 35th great grandfather.
King Robert The Bruce is my 21st great grandfather.
King Olaf III of Sweden is my 31st great grandfather.

Nearly everyone who is of European descent can trace at least one line into royalty somewhere. As soon as you do that you find tons of ancestral links stretching back many centuries, which makes checking up on your ancestry really interesting.

Sometimes you can find seemingly unlikely relationships. My personal favorite: I am related to both Robert E. Lee (gg-grandfather), and Ulysses S. Grant. (ggg-uncle) :))

Since I have had ancestors living on the North American continent for nearly four centuries, I prefer to claim my heritage is American.


And we be related all the way back to Charlegmne :mrgreen:

I also have Edward Longshanks, Robert the Bruce and William Wallace :eek:

[ISYairio]

I know my Great Great Grandma on my Mom's side came from Germany and was a Jew... don't know much else. Or at least that is what my Grandma says.

As well, my last name apparently/allegedly has old English origins... so maybe? :think: Dunno.

[twinheart]

I am first generation Irish American - both of my parents were born in Ireland - when we were little, my Grandmother told us that we were related to St. Brigid, the Patroness of Ireland -

[Harmonious]

Sephardim (Italia, perhaps also some Dalmatian and Venetian, but not Roman Italkim), Neapolitan, Abruzzi - maternal

Kentucky/Tennessee Tsalagi - paternal

I like your answer.

My father is Sephardic. My paternal grandfather and all of my paternal great-grandparents are from Turkey (and ancestors have been since they were thrown out of Spain in 1492) until they left in 1920 and came either here to the States or to Israel.

My mother's family is Ashkenaz, or from Eastern Europe, though they would never have been thought of as belonging. The countries I remember hearing about were Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and which ever country took over that town that week.

[Harmonious]

Every racial joke offends me! ;)Me, too.

[byzantine catholic]

I am first generation Irish American - both of my parents were born in Ireland - when we were little, my Grandmother told us that we were related to St. Brigid, the Patroness of Ireland -You Roman Catholic?:mrgreen:

[noose4]

irish german like tom hagen in the godfather

[byzantine catholic]

My cousin is our family's genealogist, she has traced our grandmother's side of the family, and we are a real mix, everything from direct descendants of a Sioux Indian chief all the way to the King of France, and if you can believe it Agustus Ceaser.... and maybe even all the way back to Adam and Eve. ;)

French/Sioux/Abenaki/CzechoslovakianAll I know is that my dad's mom's German side of the family have been here since the French and Indian War and they fought in the American Revolution as Patriots!:clap:My mom's side is Native American so who knows how long her family has been here!:mrgreen::))

[Stardust]

English/Irish.

[byzantine catholic]

English/Irish.Me too! Along with German, Dutch, and Cherokee!:mrgreen: