What is everyone's heritage?

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  • askeates
    askeates Posts: 1,490 Member
    What a great question.... I'm definitely of melting pot descent :wink:

    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
    juliafromrf Posts: 106 Member
    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
    algwynt Posts: 76 Member
    totally welsh as far back as i can find.looks like we,ve got the whole world covered,great question interesting to see.
  • MB2MN
    MB2MN Posts: 334 Member
    Half Irish, half Romanian (ish). I get asked a lot if I'm half Chinese though...*shrug*
  • Cathalain
    Cathalain Posts: 424 Member
    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
    lockedcj7 Posts: 257 Member
    100% Scots-Irish, born and bred in southern Appalachia.
  • Chaos_Theory
    Chaos_Theory Posts: 8
    100% Ukrainian - Born and raised in Donetsk. Best place in earth!
  • Hunnergomeow
    Hunnergomeow Posts: 231 Member
    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 :smile: )
  • dianegreennet
    dianegreennet Posts: 17 Member
    Hi! I am English & Cherokee!
  • Rayz44
    Rayz44 Posts: 5 Member
    100% Pali
  • Jade0529
    Jade0529 Posts: 213 Member
    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
    remolinotravieso Posts: 3
    100% mexican! :)
  • Inkratlet
    Inkratlet Posts: 613 Member
    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
    justifit Posts: 26
    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
    ameteorsink Posts: 6
    Half Mexican and Half Colombian :)
  • BonecrusherBrews
    BonecrusherBrews Posts: 131 Member
    Swedish and Italian
  • JaniePapageorgio
    JaniePapageorgio Posts: 142 Member
    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.
  • Kr1ptonite
    Kr1ptonite Posts: 789 Member
    Born in Australia. Australian dad, Fijian mum.
  • NatiaGonitellie
    NatiaGonitellie Posts: 355 Member
    I am a mutt. my heritage included.... Irish, Scottish, Polish, German, and English.
    Not yet proven but family research point to Russian as well.
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    Well I'm English (from England) but from what I know I have Scottish and Irish in me as well. Don't know about anything else. Quite boring right?
  • BoxerBrawler
    BoxerBrawler Posts: 2,032 Member
    I am half Sicilian, a quarter Canadian French and a quarter American Indian (Sioux) :smile:
  • Jessineide
    Jessineide Posts: 30
    portuguese nationality, but of cape verde descent. that makes me so mixed that i dont even know what i'm mixed with lol
  • cjazz72
    cjazz72 Posts: 80 Member
    I am 25% palestinian 25% irish 25% italian and the rest is British, German and Blackfoot Cherokee
  • LoosingMyLast15
    LoosingMyLast15 Posts: 1,457 Member
    i'm half irish and half french canadian
  • Sav_Sky
    Sav_Sky Posts: 82
    Swedish/ German American and Cherokee
  • butterrum13
    butterrum13 Posts: 77 Member
    Norwegian and German
  • bsbgales
    bsbgales Posts: 20
    Venezuela 100%
  • AmazonRDH
    AmazonRDH Posts: 203 Member
    3 full blooded German grandparents, one French. Married to my hottie Latin lova' :love:
  • OverDoIt
    OverDoIt Posts: 332 Member
    Scotty,direct descendant of the notorious riding clan of the nothern borders. Straight up highlander.
  • _TastySnoBalls_
    _TastySnoBalls_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    Targaryen

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