What is your ancestry?

[Aloft02]

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Another true mongrel here - dark hair and light blue eyes from mixed English, Irish, Danish, German, Welsh ancestry.

 

[Piel]

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Scot and Italian, dark hair,green eyes.

 

[alison88]

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Almost all Scottish, with some Irish and English. I'm very pale with dark hair and blue eyes.

Alison.

 

[Figureskates]

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English, scotch, French Hugenot, Irish.

13th generation American.

 

[yelyoh]

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Nice thread. I'm Southern Italian on my father's side and European Jew on my mother's side with, it is rumoured, a little bit of African.

 

[Kasey]

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I'm tempted to write "Iraqui"....Bad girl, badddd!

Full Italian on my father's side....my stepdad, who is to all intents and purposes my "dad", is African-American. My mom is Irish/English. I consider myself a member of a racially mixed family, since I'm the ONLY one who looks "white" of the kids....But what I consider myself most of all is AMERICAN!

Anyone who wants to see what I look like can check out my website....But naturally, dark reddish-brown hair, blue eyes...go figure.

Kasey

www.angelfire.com/nv2/myj...geone.html

 

[pati]

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I hope you all don't mind me butting in here since I am not a regular poster here.
My mom is all Italian and my dad was half French-Canadian and half Irish.And I am All-American and proud of it!

 

[sk8cynic]

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Dad's side of the family: Russian and Ukrainian
Mother's side of the family: Scotch, English, Dutch, Cherokee Indian, and Irish.

I look as Irish as a Killian's poster. Red Hair, green eyes, tall, pale skin that freckles if I'm not careful, and it's safe to say that I inherited the Scotch/Irish temper that goes with the red hair.

I stand out like a sore thumb in synogogue.

 

[Grgranny]

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"I stand out like a sore thumb in Synagogue."
:rollin:
Priceless

 

[Ptichka]

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I am an Ashkenazi (European Jew).

I did a little calculation, and so far here is the makeup of this board, in order of the most prevalent ancestory: (Note: I put '***' before categories that are more broad; this is totally non-scientific -- for instance, if a person said he/she is part Italian, part Irish, with a drop of Indian, I added 0.45 to Italy, 0.45 to Ireland, and 0.1 to 'Native American'. Each person adds up to exactly 1):

Germany&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 3.304
China&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 3.125
Ireland&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 2.95
France&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 2.858
Italy&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 2.8
Scotland&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 2.729
England&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 2.201
Philippines&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 1
*** Native American&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.95
Ashkenazi (European Jewish)&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 1.9
Poland&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.9
Vietnam&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.875
Russia&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.65
Wales&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.529
*** Hispanic&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.5
Finland&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.5
Romania&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.45
*** African&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.4
Norway&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.329
Ukraine&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.25
Denmark&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.2
Hungary&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.2
*** Asian&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.1
Austria&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.1
Netherlands&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.1

Here is a more generalized list:
Western Europe&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 10.391
UK&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 8.409
Asia&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 5.1
Eastern Europe&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 4.15
Native American&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.95
Hispanic&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.5
African&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 0.4

 

[sk8er1964]

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Ok, I'm going to mess up your calculations <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\"> .

I am English and Scot-Irish (they actually settled in Canada for a generation or so so you can include Canadian too, if you'd like), and German on Dad's side. On Mom's side I am Polish and Slavic. My husband is 100% German, so I guess that ups the German ante in my son.

 

[Jules Asner]

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If you're American in the livingroom, what are you when you're in the bathroom?
......
European!

courtesy of "Everybody Loves Raymond"

 

[dlksk8fan]

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Jules-
:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Dee4707]

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Jules,

:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

Too, too funny!!

Dee

 

[JOHIO2]

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Hi Pati,

Welcome to the board from another Army Mom, HOOOAH!

For Mom's peace of mind, my young man in green is sitting on his butt in front of a computer screen at Ft. Bragg. Mom thinks that's the best solution - he's considered a specialist in Afghanistan now, but they do the actual editing of the Afghani newspaper at Bragg. He expects to spend the rest of his call up doing that editing job, 'cuz he says the men in green would have to train another monkey to do his job (his words).

personally, i consider myself heinz 57, but mostly english, scot-irish with a smidgen of polish. my grandfather came over from italy, so that makes me 1/4 italian. Except for grandfather who came early 20th century, the rest of the ancestors have been around a couple of centuries. maybe one day i'll tease out all those weakley's in virginia to see if i can join the dar. one of my dad's cousins got lost trying to sort them all out!

aside to thvudragon - doesn't surprise me that so many claim cherokee ancestors. the cherokee were a settled, farming group before being displaced to oklahoma (a so called "civilized" tribe.). and there, they were one of the more successful tribes. i'm glad those with cherokee ancestors are proud of their heritage. i would be too!

 

[rgirl181]

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This is a very interesting thread. First time I've looked. Thanks for the link to your site, Kasey. I love the line, "I sit and stare at my arms scarred by my hands." Great stuff.

Dad: Slovakian. Don't know much about my dad's European relatives. He was third generation American and the youngest of nine children. His parents died when he was 14 and 15, plus they were busy working and raising that many kids.
Mom: Italian. We still have cousins in a very old town, Sant Arcangelo. It's not far from the resort town (and hometown of Fellini), Rimini, on the Adriatic. When my mother and her sister found out about these cousins in the early-'80s and went to visit them, the whole town turned out to meet "the cousins from America!" There was a band, a banquet, the whole deal.

My parents met and married in Chicago, then moved to Phoenix, AZ in the early 1950s.
Rgirl

 

[Kasey]

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Hey Rgirl...thanks for actually looking at my site!

We still have family in Italy too....on my grandmother's side, in a town called "domodossola" (not sure if that is spelled right, but it's just south of the Italian alps, right under the swiss border)......and in Naples on my grandfather's side...

Kasey

 

[mmandel]

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WOW...THANK YOU FOR THE CALCULATIONS!!!

 

[DORISPULASKI]

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Ski still has family in Italy, in a town called Caramanico Terme in Abruzzi. You can find this stuff out on the regional web sites for Italy. They have links to geneology sites for the region.

He found out that his family was famous for being against the pope back in the Renaissance, and as a result the popes used to give an encyclical once a year, every year, to excommunicate the Colonnas one more time. (And here I always Knew my mother in law could p___ off the Pope! Validation!!!) If you took European history, this is part of the incomprehensible Guelphs and Ghibellines.

dpp

 

[Grgranny]

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Doris, that is so funny. My husband's uncle married a Catholic and their father & family wouldn't even talk to them, etc. except for my husband's family. But when my husband's sister's son got married, she mentioned that she's Italian and Catholic too!:lol: