What's Your Heritage?

[miloblithe]

~12.5% English
~12.5% Irish
~50% Jewish (25% Polish, 25% Lithuanian/Russian)
25% Mostly German (long time US citizens--I'm 11th generation on one tree and 7th on another)

 

[Blue Velvet]

Pure mongrel. Part saint, part bitch.

 

[jamesi]

half italian
half irish

 

[Cooknn]

German, English, Irish & Dutch with a Cherokee Squaw in the mix back in the early 1800's

I have fun digging for info on my family genealogy. I keep a ton of info and pictures at daniel.cook.name. Daniel was my GGG Grandfather, born 1808 in Kentucky. His mom was the squaw - or it least that's what I've deduced, based on the fact that his son wasn't allowed to be buried in the regular cemetary because he was part Cherokee. And he fought in the Civil War! They eventually took down the fence that separated the white man from the indians.

 

[Dynamyk]

100% Trinidadian

 

[gauchogolfer]

English, German, French, Italian, Cherokee (only a little).

100% Texan.

 

[72930]

I was born here, my dad was born in Iraq (Jewish) and my mum was born here, but her parents are from Eastern Europe (what was Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia etc., the borders have changed now though)

 

[twistedlegato]

I am Iranian/American and i was born is Brasil

 

[SamIchi]

%100 Chinese

 

[Veritas&Equitas]

50% German
25% Swedish
25% Austrian

 

[FleurDuMal]

English. But with Irish and Scottish on each side, as is probably the case with most from the North West of England.

 

[jive]

Scottish for the past 4 generations then a wee bit of French and Irish creep in. It's ace.

 

[Sweetfeld28]

German-Canadian

 

[fairnymph]

Ancestry:

25% French
25% English
50% Germanic

Nationality: Australian mom, German dad. I'm a US resident/permanent alien with dual Australian-Canadian citizenship.

 

[Clarence]

lots of German here.

Close to 100%

 

[mpw]

...50% German
25% Irish
12.5% Swedish
12.5% Italian

1/2 polish
1/4 swedish
1/4 german

50% Scottish
25% Irish
25% Spanish (as in Spain)

So when did all move to the US?, going by your locations.

Irish- 50%
German- 25%
Scottish- 25%

add a little trace of english and welsh....and there you go!

Dad's side (Jewish):
25% Polish
25% Russian
~1%Romanian

Mom's side (Roman Catholic):
25% Irish
25% German

Which bits did you add to get over 100%

~12.5% English
~12.5% Irish
~50% Jewish (25% Polish, 25% Lithuanian/Russian)
25% Mostly German (long time US citizens--I'm 11th generation on one tree and 7th on another)

Seven generations American, at least, on both sides and still you don't claim any American heritage?!

half italian
half irish

I bet your coffee's great.

50% German
25% Swedish
25% Austrian

Where there's smoke, there's fur.

Brilliant, thanks.

 

[iSaint]

Mother's side: 25% Russian, 12.5% German, 12.5% backwoods American (Daniel Boone)

Father's side: Scot-Irish

 

[miloblithe]

Seven generations American, at least, on both sides and still you don't claim any American heritage?!

I do honestly think of that quarter of my heritage as "American" more than German, but it's all debatable. It's also only a quarter of my heritage. I'm also first generation on my English/Irish/Polish side, which is how I was able to claim British citizenship (my mother was born in England).

Also, as I was told by my Russian friends after I answered a Russian census taker that my "nationality" was "American," "American" isn't a "nationality" (which is closer to ethnicity in the Russian sense of the word.)



I actually just borrowed a family from my grandmother so that I can fill out as much of one for my newborn daughter. The tree was written down by my great-grandfather in 1911, tracing his patrilinial line back to three brothers who came to the US from Germany around 1800 (guessing by the fact that one of those brother's grandsons--my great-great grandfather--was born in 1838).

 

[steamboat26]

Tough call, not sure about the percentages, but heres a brief list of my heritage (in no particular order)

English
Irish
French
Italian
Australian
German (technically from Luxembourg, but i don't know what you call someone from there )

 

[kretzy]

100% Ukrainian - I was born in Australia but all my grandparents were Ukrainian, my mum was also born over there but my dad was born in Australia not too long after my grandparents immigrated.

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

I'm this:

Italian - 60%
German/Dutch - 20%
Irish - 15%
English - whatever else

My Nana was born in Italy.... We still cuss in Italian.

 

[pivo6]

Mom's side:

Indonesian
Dutch

Dad's side:

Croatian
Czech

 

[skunk]

German (technically from Luxembourg, but i don't know what you call someone from there )

Luxembourgeois.

 

[Veritas&Equitas]

So when did all move to the US?, going by your locations.
...Brilliant, thanks.

I don't think you really understand the concept, your citizenship does not reflect your *heritage.* 2 totally different things. What part is "brilliant?" about my heritage? Or are you being facetious?

 

[dukebound85]

I don't think you really understand the concept, your citizenship does not reflect your *heritage.* 2 totally different things. What part is "brilliant?" about my heritage? Or are you being facetious?

i think his brilliant comment was for the smoke and fur thing. ancestry is so interesting. im mainly german, english, and spanish (from spain) i think

i do find it interesting that the people that live in the us have a diverse heritage. quite cool