What is everyone's heritage?

askeates · February 2014

What a great question.... I'm definitely of melting pot descent

Scottish, English, French and Cheroke Indian that I know for sure.... Suspect Irish and German somewhere in the mix, but haven't been able to confirm.

juliafromrf · February 2014

Wow, I've always found the heritage thing in the US extremely interesting and kind of beautiful.

I'm 100% Austrian, although it's said that my maternal ancestors were Italians who immigrated to Austria like 300 - 400 years ago. Not so sure about that though.

algwynt · February 2014

totally welsh as far back as i can find.looks like we,ve got the whole world covered,great question interesting to see.

MB2MN · February 2014

Half Irish, half Romanian (ish). I get asked a lot if I'm half Chinese though...*shrug*

Cathalain · February 2014

About 70% Irish, 20% British, 10% German. Most of my family is from Northwest Ireland (around Counties Sligo, Mayo and Donegal), others are from the Devon area of the U.K. The German part, I'm not completely sure.

My mother did a huge genealogy project on our family, so she came up with some interesting facts:

- Most of my father's side emigrated to the Carolinas (North/South) and are still there for the most part.
- My mother's side of the family emigrated to the Tidewater Basin (Virginia). They're also still there.
- Everyone came to the U.S. around the same time (about 1750 or so).
- No real "famous" folks in my family, though I am VERY (and I mean very) distantly related to Thomas Jefferson - like by marriage twenty times removed or something. But the connection IS there, however tenuous.
- So far the family history has been traced back to approximately 1100 A.D. I tell my mom that she's been extraordinarily lucky to be able to go back that far - most don't keep such good records.

Other than that...

ETA: Mistyped a number..

lockedcj7 · February 2014

100% Scots-Irish, born and bred in southern Appalachia.

Chaos_Theory · February 2014

100% Ukrainian - Born and raised in Donetsk. Best place in earth!

Hunnergomeow · February 2014

On my mother's side: Ukrainian, Polish and Russian.
On my father's side: Ukrainian, Russian, and German - my father's father was a Nazi who fled to the USSR and married a Ukrainian girl. I only find that interesting since my boyfriend's Opa was a Nazi who fled to Russia, married a Russian girl and booked it to Canada about 40 years before my family moved to Canada.
(My mother's from Lviv, Ukraine, and my father's from Donetsk, Ukraine, but I was born in Kaharlyk, Ukraine

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dianegreennet · February 2014

Hi! I am English & Cherokee!

Rayz44 · February 2014

100% Pali

Jade0529 · February 2014

Hi

I am adopted. They say Scottish, English, Irish and Welsh mix but I don't know for sure if it's true

When people meet me they tend to think they know me and that I look familiar to them. Sometimes they will suddenly often speak to me in their language and expect me to understand. (I speak English and a bit of French only) lol

remolinotravieso · February 2014

100% mexican!

Inkratlet · February 2014

I'm English. Living in... England.

My fathers side of the family come from Ireland and judging by our surname they settled there from Scotland at some point. My mothers side are well bred Englishmen and women.

justifit · February 2014

Um...I have been claiming African American all my life. I recently had a family member share pictures of my great grand father so I am not so sure anymore. You tell me. LOL!

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ameteorsink · February 2014

Half Mexican and Half Colombian

BonecrusherBrews · February 2014

Swedish and Italian

JaniePapageorgio · February 2014

I was born and raised in southern Illinois... my mom's parents were immigrants; Grandma was from Hungary and Grandpa was from Poland, and they got married and lived on the south side of Chicago.

My dad is from central Indiana and his heritage is "black Irish" ( Spanish people living in Ireland ) and Pennsylvania Dutch (Germans who settled in Pennsylvania and English speaking people thought they were Dutch because of the mistranslated "Deutsch". Kurt Vonnegut writes about these people a lot).

I guess my ethnicity is "college town", because that's how my parents met haha. I love that I grew up in a small town that is really diverse because of the University; no need to deal with a giant city to be surrounded by all walks of life.