Who are your ancestors?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m about half Norwegian - mom’s side came over ~ 1900 to Minnesota - I figure that makes her pretty close to “pure” Scandanavian, at least.

The other half? Dad’s side came over in 1635 and from what I’ve been able to trace, my paternal ancestors weren’t too picky about nationality. Definites are English (originally), Irish, and some sort of Amerindian (unfortunatley, I haven’t been able to determine exactly which). And I’m sure I’m missing several more.

Famous ancestors? None of which I’m aware, though if you go back far enough I’m sure anyone can find someone.

22

Castillian(from Majorca), Basque, German, Italian, African, Taíno, maybe Moor and Jewish.

23

I’m 100% Ukrainian, for both sides of my family as far back as we can trace.

24

Uff da! If you switch grandfather and grandmother around, and switch German for Irish, you’ve pretty much got my lineage.

BTW—my Amerindian is Choctaw, 1/64th.

25

I’m not sure what I am on my mother’s side, 'cause she was adopted.

But on my dad’s side I’m mostly Norwegian (grandfather’s side) and English (grandmother’s side); more Norwegian than anything else.

As for famous ancestors, the only ones I can think of are Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.

26

German on my Mom’s side, German and Polish on my Dad’s.

27

My mom’s side is a Norwegian-German mix. On my dad’s side, I’m cleanly 50% Czech; my grandfather came over in 1924. He was from the region known as Bohemia, so I can actually call myself a Bohemian without having to follow Edie Brickell around.

My dad speaks Czech, but I don’t. I kinda want to, though. He has fun playing with the grandkids and saying old Czech nursery rhymes and games.

To the best of my knowledge, there are 11 people in America with my last name, and four of those are my brother’s kids.

28

Boring old English and Scottish I’m afraid. It’s pretty cool to be able to claim a convict in your ancestry here in Oz, but as far as I’m aware, I can’t even do THAT. There are a couple of semi-famous dudes though…William Hogarth (the artist) and Charles Burgess Fry (the captain of the first English test cricket team). Pity I can’t draw and I hate cricket!

29

I usually say that the majority of my ancestors are German, but it might be more accurate to say central European. Way back when the borders changed around just as fast as they do now, depending on who won the war or what prince married which princess. My surname came from a region that has been German for some time, but was occasionally French. And some of the Germans came from a lot further east. For three generations though all of my family, in all lines, has been born in the USA so I am actually American. Back in the 1600’s there was one family line that left France during the period of Protestant persecutions, lived in Ireland for a genaration or so, and came the the Americas in 1722. My aunt, who wants to get into the DAR, is deperately trying to find hard documention on one of the grandsons of the immigrant couple, who fought in the Revolution. We already have documentation on one of his uncles, who also fought, but that guy was court-martialed when he refused to fight with the French soldiers(who were Catholic, he was a rabid Protestant)

30

My immigrant ancestors were Polish. In spite of the fact that Poland did not exist when they emigrated, they considered themselves thoroughly Polish.

31

deep breath

French-Canadian, Greek, Spanish, Austrian, German, possibly Irish (I’ve heard conflicting things on that), Romany, Hungarian/Transylvanian, and Native American (Cree).

Meh, what can I say–I’m a mutt :).

32

Oh, yeah; one of my uncles was a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop of Montreal, actually. Kinda neat.

33

French-Canadian, Scot, Welsh, Norman, Irish, English, Seminole

34

1/2 German

1/4 Russian

1/4 Polish.

Cartooniverse

35

Basically 1/5 on all of these:

German

Welsh

English

French

Serbian

My fifth great uncle was Daniel Boone, also.

36

I’m 3/8 Irish and 5/8 German, according to my cousin.

We’ve traced the German immigrants back to the middle of the 18th century, when they arrived in Pennsylvania. They were called “Pennsylvania Dutch.” The Irish were on my dad’s side.

37

IIRC, the “Dutch” was a corruption of Deutsch.

38

Well, from my mother I get mostly Irish and a little French. My father is 100% WASP, which makes me half WAS (I’m an atheist :)).

As far as famous ancestors go, there aren’t any I’m aware of, but my father’s ex-girlfriend’s grandfather invented artificial turf. Boring, huh?

39

Some kind of German/Irish/English/Scottish/whatever mix.

Interesting ancestors:

On one side of the family: Robert the Bruce.
On the same side but in a different branch: Edward the Longshanks.

:cool:

40

My father is a Sicilian immigrant. Come to think of it, Sicilians have been raped and pillaged for so many thousands of years that I’m not sure that THEY know their ancestory.

My mother is Welsh. I have not given much time to learning about this part of my heritage. But now that I’m older, I find myself wanting to know about the Welsh people.One day I hope to travel there, it looks so beautiful.