# Poll: What’s your nationality/ ethnicity? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269 "2004-01-07T19:37:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snuggles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Snuggles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snuggles)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/21 "2004-01-07T23:35:58Z")
Well… I am from Ontario Canada. I know my father’s side of the family came from Germany back many years…and my mother’s side was from Quebec but I think if you go way back, they were from France. Not too sure on the ol heritage there. That’s the gist of it all though. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/22 "2004-01-07T23:54:03Z")
Born in United States. My maternal grandmother was adopted, and we’ve never found records for who her borth parents were. Of those we do know about, my ancestors came over from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, with the English/Irish/Swiss being dominant. Times of cross-over range from 17th century to the turn of the 20th. ---
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/23 "2004-01-08T00:49:43Z")
Wow, everyone here has a pretty varied family history, but mine’s pretty straightforward and somewhat boring. Both sides of my family are completely Vietnamese as far back as we can trace (I’m practically positive that I’m 100% Vietnamese), and my parents moved to Oklahoma in the US about 24 years ago. They had me a couple years later, moved around a bit, then ended up back in Oklahoma where the rest of my dad’s side of the family now lives also. ---
**Author:** ![Gopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gopher)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/24 "2004-01-08T00:50:17Z")
Dang, I’m really boring. American (born in California), parents are from Taiwan. There could be some Dutch or Japanese blood in me from those countries colonizing Taiwan, but nothing that I know of for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/25 "2004-01-08T01:02:14Z")
Born in Boston. Dad’s from France, Mom’s from El Paso, with ancestors arriving from England, Germany and somewhere over the Bering Strait between 2 and 50 centuries ago. Currently living in Japan, and any kids I have will most likely be born and raised here. ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/26 "2004-01-08T01:02:39Z")
First generation Australian, mate! My brothers and I are the first generation to be born outside Scotland. My parents are both Scottish. I was born here, though, so I get dual citizenship. We can trace my father’s family way way back, and it has branches which have lived in France and Ireland as well. ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/27 "2004-01-08T01:14:46Z")
I am 100% Mexican Little tidbit. Great grandma was an American woman (white) and was kidnapped by my great grandpa, at least thats what I was told. But then it turned out that she ran away with him! This was prior to the Mexican American war- after the war when Mexico gave up the west side of the US to Polk, my grandma had to choose between her citizenship or her family. She picked her family. Of my maternal grandmothers 8 or 9 siblings, only two do not have blue eyes. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/28 "2004-01-08T01:24:27Z")
My mom was first-generation American; her parents were both born in Lithuania (they emigrated separately – her father having come by way of England – and married here). My dad was mixed WASP – mostly English and German (Pennsylvania Dutch). His mother and aunt both belonged to the DAR, so I assume some of that goes back a ways. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/29 "2004-01-08T01:42:53Z")
Nationality: American I love genealogy. Ethnicity: ```auto 25.000% Slovak 12.500% Italian 12.500% German 5.713% English 1.563% Scottish 1.563% Cherokee 0.244% French 0.171% Irish ``` And the other 40.7%? Some Hawaiian, perhaps as much as 25% and the rest is probably Scottish and English. Perhaps a little Comanche but I doubt it. I’d have a lot more if I could push my lines back further, but man 1400 is a real killer of a date. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/30 "2004-01-08T01:43:34Z")
Born in Wisconsin, living in Wisconsin. Mother’s side: mostly German, with her mom’s mom arriving in the US before toddler-hood in the late 19th century, but on her dad’s side – Scottish, French, German and unintelligible. But mostly German. Father’s side: German and English, with the English boiling down into Welsh and Cornish, and some Irish blood in there, though that is certainly _not_ the same thing as being English. As for how long we’ve been here, it ranges from the 18th century/early 19th to late 19th. Hugills from at least 1848 and Hawkes . . . who knows? Supposedly they were run out of Cornwall because they were too fun-loving, but I got this from a family reunion and, well, there were TWO types of sangria there. Hmm, funny, now that I think about it, my family is a pretty damn good composite of the settlers of SW Wisconsin during the lead rush. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/31 "2004-01-08T01:50:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aries28 \* > \*\*According to my grandmother on my father’s side English and French. > My maiden name was Beauchamp and when I visited London I had so many pepole actually pronounce it correctly…unlike people in Alabama. 🙂 \*\* Beauchamp (Bee-chum) huh? Well then there’s a 65% (out of mid air) chance that we’re distant cousins. How far back have you traced them? Do you descend from Edmund B., clerk of Somerset Co., MD? ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/32 "2004-01-08T02:03:41Z")
My family’s ethnicity is mostly Belgian, but I have a small amount of Scottish from my grandmother. Also, my father is Italian and German, but since he’s not a part of my life, I don’t count it. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/33 "2004-01-08T02:10:27Z")
Canadian (living in America) All four maternal great-grandparents Icelandic (All emigrated to Canada) Paternal Grandfather 100% English, emigrated in the 30s to Canada Maternal Great-grandparents emigrated from Ireland ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/34 "2004-01-08T02:30:04Z")
Feline really… _puurrrrrrr_ ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/35 "2004-01-08T02:43:41Z")
Lessee… I’m American-born with great-great-grandparents who sailed over at some point, although my family is suspiciously reticent on geneaology. My dad was raised on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river across from Cincinnati and my mother in the city itself. I was raised in the Kentucky suburbs my entire life (same small city, even). My maternal grandmother is German entirely, my maternal grandfather is probably Irish (McDonald) but was left with only his birth certificate at an orphanage. My paternal grandmother was German, my paternal grandfather was Welsh although it is hard to deduce much more than that from my last name. For whatever reason, he was the black sheep of the family and my currently-living relatives never really saw much of his relations. Also, the name “Meredith” gives _no_ help in tracking down lineage because multiple families took it as their last name since it started as a title, then transferred into a first name, then into “ap Meredith” (son of Meredith), finally into a last name similar to Godwinson. Its been a real headache, to say the very least. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/36 "2004-01-08T02:46:46Z")
I’ve traced some ancestral lines back over 30 generations. So I’ve rounded a lot, unless you really want to hear how I’m 1/2,097,152 part Kiev Rus. Me: Slightly over 1/2 Dutch Slightly over 1/4 German Slightly under 1/8 English 1/16 Croatian Tiny, tiny bits of Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Flemish Belgian, Scandinavian, and Swiss. Theoretical particles of Russian, French, Italian, Greek, and Spanish. Sadly, no trace of Native American, Maori, Semitic, African (North or Sub-Saharan), or Asian. My earliest ancestor immigrants to the US got here by 1630. My latest got here in 1907. ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/37 "2004-01-08T03:19:34Z")
Very little info on my biological father’s side; he has an Irish surname. On my mother’s side, I’ve got a [Melungeon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=178221&highlight=melungeon) grandmother and a euromix grandfather, with Irish, English, German, Dutch, and goodness knows what else mixed in. My family was traditionally Methodist, but in recent generations we have members who have converted to various religions, including Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and one cousin who claims to talk to God. I’m an atheist personally. There was another thread on the [SDMB’s ethnicities](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=217647&highlight=melungeon) a while back. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/38 "2004-01-08T03:50:43Z")
My response to this question is always one word: mongrel There’s too much stuff mixed together and the history a little too convoluted for a lazy fellow like me to figure it out. Of course, my mom has always been proud of the slim portion of Sioux Indian blood she received from several generations back. Guess that gives me one pinky finger. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/39 "2004-01-08T05:02:04Z")
Mother’s side is Scottish/Irish. Father’s side is Scandinavian. This makes me one tall white girl! I’m as white as one can get and I’m 6’1. I burn in the sun in minutes and can only manage to eat mild hot sauce on the good days but I love my roots regardless. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269/40 "2004-01-08T05:04:19Z")
And I forgot to add… I was born in Hawaii! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-s-your-nationality-ethnicity/223269.md?page=3)