This is me pretty much, except I started in my mid 30s. I like knowing where I came from, but it doesn’t matter that much to me. Though I think it answers why I like my German metal so much.
I’m from Frederick Maryland, as are almost all of my father’s side of the family, my mother’s side I haven’t done much with. My father’s side is almost all German or German/French.
I’m not even sure where my family came from. There has been a fair amount of genealogy done on my mother’s side of the family, but next to nothing on my father’s side. We don’t have any linguistic or cultural traditions other than plain old American. It’s hard to have pride in something you don’t know about!
Don’t give a cuss.
My mother’s side is much more transparent than my father’s. His side came from Prussia, but I can’t get any farther back than about 1800. They may have originally migrated from the Slavic countries in the dim European past. My mother’s side is all Great Britain, which is an easier road to follow.
If your last name is Muller, Dmitriev, M’Butu, or Chan, we could make an educated guess.
I am as American as they come and even think of myself as such but I was born in India and will never lose that basic feeling that this is my adopted country. I mean, I came when I was four, old enough to be completely traumatized by the event (I’m guessing, because I have NO memories from before then). India is my matr-bhoomi, my mother country, and sometimes I think it would be nice and appropriate to die there. And sometimes I even think I’d like my ashes in the Ganga as is expected for a Hindu.
I mean, we are most likely the second oldest culture on the Earth, after the Jews. I think Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages. Mohenjo-Daro was one of the first “cities”. I have an incredible amount of culture behind me and choose to keep it in mind.
(Which is one of the reasons, for example, why it irks me a little when people say nose piercings are just a passing fad. My people have been doing it for generations. Please.)
It can be quite convoluted. My father was first generation Irish. My mother was German and Swiss. My grandparents were all gone by the time I was old enough to know about ethnicity. I was raised in an Italian neighborhood.
So ethnically I am Irish, German and Swiss, but culturally, I am Italian.
I’m from the next holler over the ridge. Y’all come.
So far as I can tell, I’m 102 pounds German, 48 pounds Italian, 36 pounds Irish, and 3 pounds each English and Shawnee (though some of that German might actually be French, and some might be Hungarian… The genealogies are a bit murky). The only one I really identify with, though, is the Irish, possibly because that’s what my maternal grandfather mostly was, and he’s my biggest role model.
My dad’s family came from Germany, and mom’s from England and France (and maybe Germany), but they’ve all been Americans for many generations (we’ve been in Sacramento for at least 4 generations now).
Considering that I was born blond-haired and blue-eyed, and the Norse were known for roaming all over my forefathers’ lands, I like to think I’m a Viking 
My father and his parents came from Massachusetts.
My mother and her father came from New York and her mother came from Ohio.
Beyond that I know that my mother’s paternal grandparents came from Ukraine. That’s about it.
Don’t really care, to be honest. I’m an American from Massachusetts. The origins of my great or great great grandparents don’t define who or what I am.
I’m rather mixed, but I tend to consider amateur genealogists like I consider people that believe in reincarnation. It smacks of midde-class people trying to feel “special”.
I’ve traced my ancestors to the following countries: Germany, Switzerland, England and Texas.
Norwegian/English with 1/64th Cherokee.
Of my eight great-grandparents, I’ve identified 4 Germans and 4 (I think) English. My dad is 75% English and my mom is 75% German, apparently, so I got an even mix.
Ireland & Germany.
Little bit o’ Brits in there somewhere. And some Cherokee.
Mostly Ireland, though.
Mostly Scots & English, with a big hunk of German. Identify mostly with the Scots heritage, secondarily with the German, can’t seem to get aroused about the English.
Korean on both sides, going back as far as records go assuming they’re correct. I visited my ancestor’s burial mounds last time I was there a few years ago. I think it’s pretty common for Korean people in America to be 100% Korean since our presence here is still relatively new, but that will probably change quickly over the next few generations.
3/4 Russian Jewish (at the time) 1/4 German Jewish. Some came from Pinsk, since my father was a member of a burial society of those descended from Pinskers. My maternal grandfather was actually born in Russia.
Between three or four family members, we’ve done a bit of research on both sides of the family. So far, English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, German-Austrian, Cherokee, Seminole, and the most recent find: a marriage license that lists my 5x great-grandmother as “mulatto.” In 1816, Liberty County, Georgia. Pissed my grandmother off right royally, too. (The same grandmother had spent my whole life making snide and insulting remarks about the African/Seminole ancestry on my father’s side, implying that her family had more “class.” Yep, classy and multi-cultural! )