What is everyone's heritage?

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  • RunBrew
    RunBrew Posts: 220 Member
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    My mothers side is English/Scottish, My aunt did an ancestry.com thing and found a passenger manifest from the actual "Mayflower" as pilgrims named 'Smithe' that she can trace the line to. Apparently Benjamin Merrill, A captain of the Colonial Carolina Regulators, was also an ancestor of mine. He was hanged for Treason after the first battle of the American Revolution in 1771.

    My Dad's side is less clear, but by all accounts, traces it's roots back to Immigration from German/English heritage immigrating to America around 1800.

    Somewhere along the way there was some Cherokee and Hispanic added to the line, but I only know that from offhanded comments like 'Oh, your Dad's Great-Grandmother was half-Cherokee, etc.
  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
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    There's German and English on my dad's side, and my mom's is German and Native American. It's been so many generations ago that I just say "I'm American".
  • terlyn20
    terlyn20 Posts: 142 Member
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    American - southern - mix of English ,Irish , Scottish both sides of family tree
  • traceytwink
    traceytwink Posts: 538 Member
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    75% English, 25% welsh ????
  • LadyZephyr
    LadyZephyr Posts: 286 Member
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    Dads side: Irish gypsy (grandfather), Scottish, English and some distant Italian (Grandmother).
    Mums side: Indian and technically Pakistani, however, my grandmother is from Lahore, but was born there when Pakistan was still India, so it's a bit of a dispute. I just say Desi if people ask.
  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
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    Human. From a long line of humans.
  • sandylion
    sandylion Posts: 451 Member
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    Dutch Canadian. Both parents were born Canada-side, all four grandparents from Friesland, the Netherlands.
  • mikej1978
    mikej1978 Posts: 362 Member
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    Italian
  • Rei1988
    Rei1988 Posts: 412 Member
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    Mainly Portuguese, Spanish, Russian with a little Hawaiian & Chinese.
  • krissenior
    krissenior Posts: 68 Member
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    100% Englishman :)
  • Mr_Excitement
    Mr_Excitement Posts: 833 Member
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    All Irish, so far as I know. From Ulster.
  • princessofredrock
    princessofredrock Posts: 382 Member
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    Italian from mom, German and American Indian dad's side
  • SlinkyAndHerAmazingBunsOfSteel
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    33% Scottish, 33% English, 12% Irish, 12% Welsh
    My Mum is Scottish, her parents were Scottish and Irish. My Dad is English and his parents were English and Welsh. :smile:
  • Spaghetti_Bender
    Spaghetti_Bender Posts: 509 Member
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    100% Eye-Talian
  • SandyAnnP
    SandyAnnP Posts: 251 Member
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    First generation Australian from 100% Scottish parents/ grandparents. :)
  • red_road
    red_road Posts: 761 Member
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    I'm 50% British, 50% Jamaican.
  • Lunera85
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    Polish, living in Ireland!
  • missanitab
    missanitab Posts: 12 Member
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    Jamaican/Panamanian
  • EddieHaskell97
    EddieHaskell97 Posts: 2,227 Member
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    German and Norwegian.
  • kawaiinekochi
    kawaiinekochi Posts: 15 Member
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    My mom is 100% Chinese and my dad is Black, Native American and there might be some Caucasian ancestry too.