# What is your descent?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 26, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514 "2000-04-26T21:00:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/1 "2000-04-26T21:00:00Z")
I am part Irish, English, Scottish, German and Russian. I guess I am a colossial mut. Being Michael Masterson I get asked, “Are you related to Bat Masterson?” And the answer is yes, he is in the mix. And how about all of you? What is your descent(s)?
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### Author:  [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/2 "2000-04-26T21:07:00Z")
Irish, Scottish (Clan Gunn, to be precise), German and Lithuanian.
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### Author:  [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/3 "2000-04-26T21:08:00Z")
Dutch, German, and Scottish.
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### Author:  [@h\_thur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h_thur)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/4 "2000-04-26T21:13:00Z")
Native American (Choctaw & Cherokee), German, Irish, Scottish, and French.
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### Author:  [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/5 "2000-04-26T21:14:00Z")
Italian, Irish, Danish, and maybe a little French thrown in. Austrian from way way back.
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### Author:  [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/6 "2000-04-26T21:14:00Z")
Latvian, just like Surgoshan.
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### Author:  [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/7 "2000-04-26T21:15:00Z")
So far everyone has German and Scottish.
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A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.
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### Author:  [@concrete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/concrete)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/8 "2000-04-26T21:16:00Z")
all my relatives were born in Scotland…parents and grandparents were born in Glasgow Scotland…guess that makes me Canadian.
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### Author:  [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/9 "2000-04-26T21:17:00Z")
Durnit!
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### Author:  [@aeb218](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aeb218)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/10 "2000-04-26T21:19:00Z")
I’m a very boring German/Slovak mix.
But my sweetie is a beautiful & exotic Indian/Filipino mix.
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### Author:  [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/11 "2000-04-26T23:25:00Z")
I could of sworn I posted here.
I am 2nd gen Dutch.
Last name was Van der Spek before it was changed.
Was told it ment “of the bacon”
guess I am gonna have to ask coldfire about that huh?
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matser or typos.
Typo artist fo the world Untie!
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### Author:  [@godfork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godfork)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/12 "2000-04-26T23:36:00Z")
Nearly half Scottish (clan Marjoribanks), nearly half German, with some mysterious dark genes thrown in 3 generations ago.
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I was conceived in a gas station bathroom.
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### Author:  [@TripleAnt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TripleAnt)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/13 "2000-04-26T23:36:00Z")
I am Italian and German, plus a little Scottish.
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### Author:  [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/14 "2000-04-26T23:36:00Z")
I’m a mix of English, Irish, Swiss, and German. At leat half of my ancestors were always busy fighting the other half. Ain’t the melting pot grand?
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“It seemed like a good idea at the time…
…but then again, so did the atomic bomb.” -Charles Sismondo
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### Author:  [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/15 "2000-04-26T23:40:00Z")
Sounds cliche, but:
American.
With but one exception you have to go back at least six generations to find someone not born in North America (my maternal grandfather was Norwegian). That seems long enough to lose the hyphen.
Somehow we’ve been here that long and still haven’t achieved the American dream, what crappy luck.
If you want to go farther back it seems just about everyone emmigration from England or Germany.
English-German-Norwegian. I don’t believe I could get any whiter.
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-Obfus
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### Author:  [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/16 "2000-04-26T23:43:00Z")
Irish… just Irish, unless you go back to the Norman Invasion…
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I am a redhead, you see, and I do not tempt. I insist. -Cristi
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2000, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/17 "2000-04-27T00:43:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Osip:
> **Last name was Van der Spek before it was changed.
> Was told it ment “of the bacon”
> guess I am gonna have to ask coldfire about that huh?**
Guess so… spot on, though. What did they change it in? I see a lot of American names where they just glue the words together, like “Vanderspek”. Ironically, that makes it a Flemish name. Well, maybe some of those actually ARE Flemish, I don’t know.
I’m 15/16 Dutch and 1/16 German.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2000, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/18 "2000-04-27T00:47:00Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Originally posted by Osip:
> **Last name was Van der Spek before it was changed.
> Was told it ment “of the bacon”
> guess I am gonna have to ask coldfire about that huh?**
Guess so… spot on, though. What did they change it in? I see a lot of American names where they just glue the words together, like “Vanderspek”. Ironically, that makes it a Flemish name. Well, maybe some of those actually ARE Flemish, I don’t know.
I’m 15/16 Dutch and 1/16 German.
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### Author:  [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/19 "2000-04-27T07:18:00Z")
I consider myself an American, but going by blood I’m overwhelmingly British.
And my last name is Dutch. Go figure.
– Sylence
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You need Degas to make De Van Gogh.
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### Author:  [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-descent/16514/20 "2000-04-27T07:26:00Z")
I’m half French and half Irish…
which means…
I’d be a great lover if I wasn’t shitfaced all the time.
Seriously though, German/French ancestory.
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Take care.
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