So what's your heritage?

[LadyoftheRabbits]

As in ancestry... countries your family came from. Mine's Scottish, Greek, and Dutch, primarily :hi: Throw in any interesting ancestors as well if you've got 'em.

[deadparrot]

1. German-Irish, mostly.

With some Swiss and Belgian thrown in. :)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

5. Awesome

:thumbsup: :D

[Reciprocity]

149. Same here Irish-German with some, French and Italian

[flvegan]

2. Britain, Norway, Scotland, France and the Nemasket Indians all helped

bring me to you folks. Aren't you lucky.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

6. Why yes, we are

:D

[lost-in-nj]

3. English

french, irish and blackfoot indian (very little)
Your basic Heinz 57 variety






lost

[LadyoftheRabbits]

7. I know it well...

I'm an all around mutt. :hi:

[ZombieNixon]

4. Well, you know my story.

India...possibly Persia and a bit of...some unknown else. :D

[LadyoftheRabbits]

8. Yes I do!

:D Welcome, fellow Persian :hug: Well... OK, you more so than me, but you know. :crazy:

[ZombieNixon]

10. In a very roundabout way.

:D :hug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Swedish, Norwegian, English, German, French, Scottish

total wasp

[LadyoftheRabbits]

12. Haha

Yep. :hi: :D

[Xipe Totec]

11. Asturian, near as I can figure

Some Galician as well.

No, I did not misspell Austrian, I meant Asturian from northern Spain.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

13. Awesome!

Yep... I know about it :hi: :)

[Maestro]

79. Nice area up there.

I've only been to central Spain but I have seen pictures. Funny, with your DU name, I would have thought you were of Mexican or Central American ancestry.

[Xipe Totec]

161. Culturally, I am Mexican

Ethnically, the milleage varies.

[u4ic]

125. I have a friend

from northern Spain. (though I can't remember what city)

He sold me on visiting northern Spain, rather than the south! :rofl: (a bit of rivalry going on there, perhaps?)

:loveya: :hug:

[Xipe Totec]

160. Yes, that's right!

Leon and Asturias call themselves true Spain. The rest they call reconquered lands.

(Much to the chagrin of Southern Spaniards)

[u4ic]

170. Yes, I do recall

him mentioning the conquering of lands...

I also recall him mentioning the Celts, which was very surprising to me. I never envisioned Celts in Spain...

[Xipe Totec]

171. Susana Seivane - my favorite Galician piper

http://www.susanaseivane.com

Speaking of Spanish Celts.

:hi:

[sg_]

14. Not exactly sure.

My granny was born in Canada then moved here (to N.Ireland) when she was young. Then mostly everyone else in my family was born and raised here to my knowledge, as far as I know anyway. I figure if someone else had come from somewhere far away I'd have found out about it by now :)

Not very exciting or varied compared to some other peoples family backgrounds !.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

16. Still interesting

Northern Ireland... that's awesome! :thumbsup: Besides, it gives you something to dig into :)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. 75% Irish & 25% Swiss

The only interesting stuff I have is a couple family members who did jail time (one guy for kidnapping, a favorite family story). Oddly enough, none of the ones who did jail time were the Mafia members (Italian mobsters who married in on my dad's side). There's nothing interesting on my mom's side. They're all fucked up but in a dysfunctional hating sort of way. On my dad's side, it's dysfunctional but everyone loves each other.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

18. I know the dysfunctional very well

:P Cool background :hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. Yeah, I don't really remember the mobsters well.

They both died when I was a little kid. Of course, I didn't know about their jobs then. They were just really nice rich uncles. As for my cousin that did time for kidnapping, we just refer to it as the guy owed Jimmy money, so Jimmy stole the guy.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

28. That's really cool...

Wish the Greeks did stuff like that. :D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

40. Somewhere they probably do.

If my family lived in Bumfuck, USA then I'm sure we wouldn't have such a colorful past. Everyone on my father's side basically lived directly across the Hudson from NYC (as did I as a kid). Moving to the suburbs was major culture shock for me. I thought I was in the wilderness. I had always seriously thought that going to visit my uncle in Fort Lee was going to the country. In actuality, Fort Lee is a very built up area, but he had a yard with grass, therefore he lived in the country. At least compared to the 2 family brownstone (with attached embrodiery factory) with an alleyway on each side and a concrete "backyard" that was really just a loading area for the embroidery factories (my grandparents and the other factory directly behind us).

[Quakerfriend]

17. English and German mostly, along with a bit Swiss and Russian

Oh, and some are famous (just a bit!) too:

Constantine Hering, MD- My great,great grandfather was the 'Father of Homeopathy in America'
Rudolph Hering- My great, great uncle was the 'Father of the Sewer System in America'
and Harold Knerr- My great uncle wrote the Katzenjammer Kids- The longest comic strip in existence

;)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

19. Cool!

I don't meet many people with Russian backgrounds. :hi:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

20. I don't really know. I'm guessing it's Scottish somewhere back because

of my name. Unless someone needed to have their name changed
>_>
<_<
:yoiks:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

22. Awesome!

If Scots, then let us band together :toast:

[sarge43]

21. German, English, Irish, Scottish, pretty standard mix n/t

[LadyoftheRabbits]

23. Yep

:hi:

[bridgit]

24. scots/german...

[LadyoftheRabbits]

29. Yep, sure looks it!

:hi: :D

[bridgit]

33. evening...

:hi: :-)

[u4ic]

41. From which side

do the sunglasses come from? :rofl:

[bridgit]

55. oh ha ha...

:rofl: does look a little east german spy-ish, huh :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

25. As far as I know, 100% Greek.

I'm adopted, but I was born in Athens to what I believe were Greek parents. I mean, I feel Greek. ;)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

30. Oh yes...

Greeks can always feel it. And as a Greek, I can sense your fellow... Greek-ness. :P

[ulysses]

39. how does one feel Greek?

:D

[GOPisEvil]

43. Sorta warm, like being wrapped in pita.

:D

[ulysses]

47. LOLOL

I was thinking "an affinity for feta" or something. :D

[GOPisEvil]

60. My sweat tastes like ouzo, too!

:silly:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

49. There you go!

He's got it. :D

[LadyoftheRabbits]

48. Ahh...

It comes from within. :P

[u4ic]

27. Ukrainian

with a splattering of Polish...:-)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

31. Cool!

Haven't had any of that here yet! :hi:

[greatauntoftriplets]

32. I am a mutt.

Irish, Luxembourgisch, German, French-Canadian, Swiss and Iroquois. What is interesting is that my Irish relatives were Norman-Irish, and the French relatives were originally from Ireland, but fled to France with the rest of the Wild Geese in the 1690s and then to Quebec where someone married the Iroquois. In other words, my French and Irish ancestry are all mixed up.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

35. Wow

That's quite a story :hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

133. I'll just bet...

that you, me, and my hubby, the wonderful and adorable reprehensor, are all cousins. Everyone in Quebec has about 3 degrees of separation cousin-wise.

While his cousins were scalping my cousins, my cousins were oppressing his cousins first. At leasst that's what we tell everybody. :P

[tinfoil tiaras]

34. Scottish and Irish

all that boring crap...

I wish i was like 1/3 black, 1/3 white and 1/3 latino or something....

[LadyoftheRabbits]

Shit, double post

x(

[LadyoftheRabbits]

36. ...

:rofl: Scotch Irish is cool though! :hi:

[tinfoil tiaras]

38. Haha, thanks!

:hi: :D

[JitterbugPerfume]

37. mostly hill billy

:crazy: :silly:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

46. Awesome!

:thumbsup: I've been there.

[JitterbugPerfume]

166. Actually I am

English , Irish , German , Scots .

[ulysses]

42. scots-german,

with a possible (likely, but small by this point in time if so) side of Native American.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

50. Hey, me too

The Native American bit, anyway :hi:

[sir_captain]

44. Chinese/German-Jewish

Italian-Jewish if you go back long enough

[LadyoftheRabbits]

51. That's really unique

Dutch Jewish here :hi:

[sir_captain]

71. It's a good combination

lots of similarities in culture, somewhat surprisingly

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

45. Irish/British/American Indian/French

:hi:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

53. Interesting combo!

:hi:

[querelle]

52. Strictly French

Both of my parents come from France. I was born in Paris and one year after they moved to Montreal. My brother was born in Montreal. He is the only true Canadian in our family! He lives in Calgary now. I live in Ottawa.

Q

[LadyoftheRabbits]

56. Very nice

Wish I was French :D

[querelle]

61. lelapin........You May Already Be Part French

You already look like a young Brigitte Bardot. Don't laugh young lady! She was a babe back in the day! And you do look like her!



Q

[LadyoftheRabbits]

62. MOI???

Wow! :wow: She is gorgeous!! I'm really flattered... thank you! :hug:

And I think I do have a smattering of French in there way back :P )

[smirkymonkey]

54. English/Dutch/Italian

[LadyoftheRabbits]

57. Cool!

:hi:

[smirkymonkey]

196. Thanks! I am a blue eyed blonde who tans well!

Also, I am pretty good Italian cook. :hi:

[SOteric]

58. Italian on my mother's side, and Italian on my father's side.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

59. Italian is something else...

I wish I had in me :hi:

[LeftyMom]

63. More places than not, really. I'm 1/4 Italian on mom's side and

1/4 Hungarian on dad's, but that other half is pretty well distributed throughout Europe with a few other things thrown in just to make sure I'd have to get custom mixed base whenever I want to wear makeup.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

64. I know the feeling

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

65. French, Irish ,and Pennsylvania Dutch (german)

:)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

67. Awesome

:hi:

[Maestro]

66. English and Irish primarily but one branch

we've traced back to 16th century Germany.

Here is a picture of my grandfather's parents on my mother's side. My great grandfather's family is from Cork, Ireland. My great grandmother was born in Pennsylvania but her dad is from England. The second picture is her dad as a boy in England. Just to liven things up a bit, after getting married my great grandparents moved to Mexico to find work. My great great Uncle, his brother, started a saloon there. The third pic is the picture inside of the saloon. My great, great Uncle is the one standing.







Also on my mother's mother's side of the family, this is picture of the my great, great, great grandfather. He was born in 1815 in Kentucky and his family is originally from England as well. He founded Jacksonville, Texas.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

68. Wow!!

Those are gorgeous photos, thank you for sharing! :D :hi:

[Maestro]

78. No problem.

I meant to respond to you and GOPsux, but I responed to myself. I'm tired. ;)

[Guava Jelly]

70. Those are great!!

I am sort of a genealogist myself.
I love old pictures like these

[Maestro]

80. I've always been interested in family history.

I sometimes am not sure who I am so I need to know who my family is to help me figure that out. ;) Thanks for the kind words.

[Maestro]

77. Thanks.

I have a large collection from the family and I just connected with a distant relative who has more. It has been intersting thus far.

[sendero]

81. Beautiful and fascinating photos..

... thanks for posting them, I'm going to gaze at them for a while!!!

[Maestro]

85. Any time.

I have a large collection.

Here are my great Aunts taken while still living in Mexico before the revolution.



This is the whole family. My grandfather is the baby. The house where this photo was taken was still around in the 1980s. I haven't been back since then though.

[jpgray]

69. Scottish

Insofar as my dad says I came out of a Scotch bottle on a Saturday night.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

73. ...

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[sendero]

72. Scottish, Czech and Cherokee..

... I'm a mutt.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

74. Interesting mix

:hi:

[Maestro]

82. With a name like Sendero

I would thought, Spanish or Latin American. It means path or trail in Spanish.

[sendero]

87. The name Sendero..

... refers to a place I own out in the country where I will live someday. 40 acres of trees with a 75' clearing down the middle, a sendero!

[Maestro]

88. Lucky you.

I wish I could get my hands on a nice "sendero" for myself. I'm envious. I hope you get much enjoyment from it.

[sendero]

92. Thank you..

... and don't worry - my wife and I live for the day (about 6 years from now) when we can get the hell out of Dallas and live up there. In the meantime, we spend most weekends there, enjoying the wildlife and actually clearing brush, planting nut trees and blackberry bushes, and generally getting the place ready to be our middle earth :)

[Maestro]

93. I just south of you then in Ellis County.

What a coincidence!

[sendero]

96. Oh cool..

... I didn't look at your profile so I didn't know you were a Texan. Yes, I've lived in the Dallas area since the 70s.

My country place is up in Texoma, about 10 miles from OK. The people up there are so completely different than Dallasites, it's amazing. Of course, they probably are also very different in Ellis county :)

I know here on DU folks think Texans are all a bunch of dumbass hicks, but that's really not the case :) Of the folks I've gotten to know up there, plenty are strong Democrats. Damn near all of them are just nice people.

[sakabatou]

75. Israel and Eastern Europe

[LadyoftheRabbits]

76. That's cool

:hi:

[scarlet_owl]

83. Mexican, Irish, French, and German.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

84. Another interesting mix

:hi:

[Maestro]

86. You must be feisty.

;) :)

[Xipe Totec]

188. You're in excellent company!

Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001).

He was born Antonio Rodolfo Oaxaca Quinn in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico to an Irish father and a Mexican mother, a combination that would later allow him to play many different ethnicities.

[Critters2]

89. Not very interesting mix

Scottish on one Grandmother's side, the other is Scots-Irish. One grandfather German (Pomeranian--the distinction was important to him), the other Irish. Two of my great-greatgrandmothers were Native American--Menominee, to be exact. And one of my ancestors on the Scots-Irish side, which dates to colonial times, was a member of the Green Mountain Boys.

I could join the DAR if I wanted. But I don't.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

90. Interesting...

So could I, but I haven't. :hi:

[Critters2]

91. I could join MENSA, too

I maxed the Miller Analogy Test. I don't want to join clubs that are mostly about who CAN'T get in.

[Skittles]

115. ???

how is that not interesting? :)

[Tikki]

94. French and Native American....

Tikki

[LadyoftheRabbits]

95. Cool!

:hi:

[momophile]

97. Piss and Vinegar, according to my Mom.

Really just Irish, Scottish, English, French, German and Norwegian.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

98. ...

:rofl: Awesome :D

[KamaAina]

99. Earthling

100 percent (as far as I am aware).

As to which types of Earthling: (in descending order of prominence) Irish, Scottish, Austrian, German, Dutch, Scots Irish.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

100. Haha!

Good one :thumbsup:

[Breeze54]

101. Ireland

County Cork, Limerick and Dublin area's, from what I've been told.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

103. It's awesome to be Irish...

I've got a little myself :hi:

[Broken_Hero]

102. primarily Haida, and Danish

...:) :hi:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

105. Hey there!

I don't think we've had either of those yet! :hi:

[Broken_Hero]

109. well a first time for everything

Haida, was primarily a BC Indian tribe, who stretched its reach into SE Alaska, and is now one of 500 recognized tribes, by the fed government, and my other ancestors are from ...Denmark!...:P

[jane_pippin]

104. Hey! My ancestry is Greek and Scottish too! (and Polish) Weird!

I always thought that was a goofy combination, but maybe it's not at all.

My mom's family was 100% Scottish until my generation came around, (or, 100% as in they were all from Scotland for a few generations before they got to the US. Before that who knows.) My dad had a 100% Polish parent, and a 100% Greek parent. (same "who knows" qualifier applies here too.)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

106. Oh yes...

With my family, it's a lot of "who knows?" :hi:

[jane_pippin]

112. Yep. We're researching a bit, and starting to think the Greek might be

partly Hungarian, but we are under no circumstances allowed to say that to my Gramma or she'll curse us with the Evil Eye!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

107. Irish, Scottish, Portuguese, Italian. Maybe a dab of English.

Think there're more, but they're not coming to me right now. :hi:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

108. Cool!

Haven't seen Portuguese here yet! :hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

110. Well, then, you know that I'm just special.

:P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

111. Of course!

:P

[nini]

178. All Portuguese people are special

:D


:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

113. British mostly.

My ancestors were Quakers who came over with William Penn.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

117. Cool!

It's great you can trace back to that! :hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

119. One of my relatives is big into geneology

and she traced one branch of our family back to the 1400s.

[Skittles]

114. half English, half Norwegian

yes INDEED

[LadyoftheRabbits]

w00t!

(You seemed excited, so I got it too) :D

[Seabiscuit]

116. 1/4 French, English, Irish, German

all-American mutt.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

118. Indeed

I know it well :hi:

[Haole Girl]

120. Irish, Native American (Cherokee), and Welsh

Here's an odd story: My Mother told me, growing up, that her side of the family was French. It turns out, and I only learned this at my Grandfather's funeral, at 36 years of age, (which was 13 years after my mother died) that there is no French what-so-ever...only Irish and Cherokee. To this day, I have no idea why she thought her descendants were French. :shrug:
There was a great Aunt, who attended my Grandfather's funeral, who gave me a huge genealogy report (2 inches thick) showing my Mother's Irish side of the family. The report shows our genealogy all the way back to Eric the Red.

I always knew I was Irish, somehow, and always had a fondness for Irish Whiskey...so I was relieved, in a way-- though still puzzled.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

122. That's really cool...

Irish= :yourock:

[Haole Girl]

124. Thanks...I forgot...

when I tell this story, people sometimes argue about Eric the Red being from Norway. Here is a link about the Vikings and the Irish (for those who might not know):

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/viking.html

[BreweryYardRat]

121. Euro-mutt.

France, England, Germany. Only notable ancestor I have was (supposedly) a Confederate doctor who came up with some sort of medical advance during the Civil War, but I've had no luck finding specifics.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

123. Good luck getting that info!

:hi: :D

[grannylib]

126. British and Russian by birth; Norwegian and a smidge of German by

adoption :-)
German and Czech by marriage

[LadyoftheRabbits]

127. Awesome! So

you have a lot to go with :D

[grannylib]

129. Working on the body art to go with it all! I have the unicorn for the

half British part of me (since the unicorn is half of the British emblem) and working on a design for a Norski dragon with rosemaling (traditional Norwegian folk art) incorporated. Not sure what I am going to do with the Russian part...was hoping to do my name in Cyrillic but it doesn't translate...
Ah well! I will think of something :-)

[Katina]

128. Irish, Irish and oh.....Irish

yeah, what a bore. My siblings on the other hand added an interesting mix, and my nieces & nephews took it even further. My family is a real live melting pot.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

130. Cool!

Being Irish = :yourock: Can't say it enough :P

[fudge stripe cookays]

131. German, German, German.

Did I mention Deutschland?

Only about 2/16 of me is French and English. The rest of me is bona-fide Kraut.

Ausgezeichnet!
fsc :hi:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

134. :D

Guten tag! (That's all I know :blush: ) :hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

136. Guten tag!

Here's something new for you:

Wie geht's? (How are you?)

It's short for "Wie geht es Ihnen heute?" (shorthand for "How are you today?")

fsc

[LadyoftheRabbits]

137. Oooh cool!

German lesson! :bounce:

[Kixel]

132. I'm a Polish!

With a little bit of German mixed in. My Great, Great Aunt likes to tell me we are descended from Polish royalty. I have yet to authenticate this fact, and Stella is a woman who loves to tell a good story...I would go with fiction, but it's still fun to say. Not many people dispute the wisdom of a well spoken lady...

[LadyoftheRabbits]

135. That'd be really cool...

if you were, but even if you aren't you still have an awesome G.G. aunt! :hi:

[Kixel]

140. This is true...

She was an opera singer in her day. I don't know if she hit the big time or not-again, she likes to tell tall tales. My favorite fact about her is that she's a strict Catholic who is married to an atheist. He drives her to church every day and sits in the car. It's an interesting dynamic. He went to church for their wedding and the baptism of their son...

[mad-mommy]

143. polish, slovak

[LeahD]

138. Danish, Irish, Welsch, German........

basically WASP.......

[auntAgonist]

139. Scottish as far back as I can trace. I was born there

lived there till I was 10.

aA

[caty]

141. Scottish--English--French

[Floogeldy]

142. I loaded this thread and searched for "Africa." It is not there.

What the fuck is going on?

[Karenina]

187. It WAS earlier.

I read ONE POST, which has since DISAPPEARED, that included Africa. I did take particular notice as it was the only post I have EVER SEEN in this type of thread where someone has CLAIMED African heritage and decided to wait til after work for the thread to develop. I'm always fascinated by Amis who claim their "mutthood" while at the same time being so hostile to languages other than English and it was the FIRST TIME on DU that I'd EVER SEEN someone, who by the rest of the mix could possibly be id'ed as white, CLAIM AFRICAN HERITAGE. THAT POST HAS VANISHED!!! :shrug:

On edit: WHEW!!! Found it... The copycat thing moves too swiftly for old ladies like me. :freak:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5539302#5539821

[Floogeldy]

191. Thanks for the insight.

:)

[mvd]

144. Let's see

English and Italian make up the majority. Also some French, German, Dutch, and Scottish.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

145. English, Swedish, Scottish, German

[smtpgirl]

146. This is for LeahMira!!!!!

My Ancestry:

German
Indian (Blackfoot)
French-Canadian
Scottish
Irish
English

[catbert836]

147. Irish, Russian, Polish, German, Swedish, English

In that order.

[Hand]

148. Japanese and Jewish...

Mom was Nisei, Dad was (Russian) Jewish, both children of immigrants. They met in Berkeley in 1934 but couldn't marry in California at that time (anti-miscegenation laws).

Biracial types aren't unusual these days, but back when I was born (1949) it was definitely out of the ordinary...

[Zomby Woof]

150. Polish, Scots-Irish, German, English, French

That's roughly in order from most to least, leaving out what's negligible and of course, unknown. :-)

[Vidar]

151. Swedish/Norwegian/Danish--all viking.

[laundry_queen]

152. Ukrainian, French and German. n/t

[speedoo]

153. Italian.

My mother's side is from Bari, on the Adriatic Coast. My father is from Filicudi, an Island north of Sicily.

In other words I'm half Sicilian, and I know people. So to paraphrase the lame duck Senator from Connecticut, fuck with me at your peril.:grr:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

154. My dear lelapin........

Here's mine:

English, Irish, Scottish, German, French, and Swedish!

Just call me Heinz 57 Variety!

No famous ancestors that I'm aware of......or infamous!


:woohoo: :woohoo:

[ellisonz]

155. Polish Jew and Missoura farmer.

[Spider Jerusalem]

156. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, Huguenot French, and Dutch...

Somewhat interesting ancestors: a 5th great-grandfather was a Pennsylvania Quaker who was thrown out of meeting for attending a marriage in a non-Quaker church (the Quakers were a lot less tolerant back then); a 7th great-grandfather was an Ulster Scots minister who was the second pastor of the oldest Presbyterian church in America (Rehoboth Church in Maryland, founded in 1683--he married a fairly well-off widow, and one of his grandsons was a governor of Maryland); a 4th great-grandfather was an attorney from Maryland--he was given a patronage job at the US Treasury by Andrew Jackson and moved to Washington, DC, in the 1820's--his daughter, my ggg-grandfather's sister, married Mathew Brady (famous Civil War photographer); several of my ancestors were English Catholics who settled in Maryland in the 1630's (a few had the imposing title of 'Lord of the Manor', with all the privileges of an English baronial court), and one of my Maryland Catholic ancestors (a 10th great-grandfather) kidnapped his sister-in-law, the stepdaughter of the colonial secretary, to bring her up as a Catholic against the wishes of her mother and stepfather; an 11th great-grandfather was a Puritan commissioner sent by Cromwell to govern Maryland under the Commonwealth (which was a rather bloody era in colonial history; the proprietary government refused to yield to Cromwell's men, and it led to violence and not a few deaths); a 7th great-grandfather was a participant in Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion against Governor Berkeley of Virginia in 1676--he was an officer in Bacon's army, and narrowly escaped the noose (he was eventually pardoned, but forbidden to hold public office--he was later elected to the House of Burgesses, but denied his seat).

[Missy Vixen]

157. Half Irish, half Swedish

My family is full of morose, drunk people. (I'm KIDDING!) Then again, if you've ever seen an Ingmar Bergman movie, you'd understand the morose part...

Julie

[Starbucks Anarchist]

158. Indian.

Gandhi, not Sitting Bull. ;)

[tjwmason]

159. English, and a small dash of Scots.

More specifically my mother's family is from the East Riding of Yorkshire (God's own county), which means it's very possible that there's a smidgen of something Scandinavian due to trading links. My father's family from what is now called South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

[Random_Australian]

162. Aussie, New Zealand, England.

[Crabby Appleton]

163. Ukrainian French Scot English German Prussian

Two generations away from the Ukraine on dad's side, Gramps came through Ellis Island in 1905.

Mom's side: French, Scot (Robertson clan - Ancrum Scotland) & English, a little German & Prussian. Know quite a bit about mom's side from a cousin that's really into genealogy. Mom has French surname and is from an illustrious French family, Have 4 Revolutionary War vets in ancestry; two French Navy veterans of the American Revolution that were in the naval battle off Yorktown, two American Continental Army ancestors from MA. (also not in SAR, not my style) Gr-gr-grandfather and his 4 brothers in the Union army during the Civil war, one was killed a few months before the end of the war in VA.

One English ancestor had to hot-foot it out of England one step ahead of the sheriff – accused of poaching!

[NewWaveChick1981]

164. Western Europe and Scandinavia.

England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, and several others which I'm sure I'm leaving out unintentionally.

[LeftishBrit]

165. East Europaean-Jewish (Polish and Lithuanian) on one side;

Canadian of English and Scottish descent on the other. But born and brought up in England.

[hyphenate]

167. Just the Celts

English, Irish and Scottish.

[RebelOne]

168. English, Irish and Scottish.

An interesting ancestor was Edward Teach (Blackbeard).

[insane_cratic_gal]

169. Irish, Swedish, Native American

and it's not exotic native american, it's like Penobscot indian hehe.. so no warrior indian blood in me.. just damn frigging cold indian.

[anarch]

172. Yeti

[LadyoftheRabbits]

173. Awesome. I can honestly say...

We haven't had one of those yet. :P

[u4ic]

175. "I will

hug him and squeeze him and pet him and call him George..."

[NewJeffCT]

174. Polish & Italian (well, half my Italian is Sicilian)

My parents on my dad's side were Polish... my mom's dad was Sicilian, my mom's mom is from Naples, Italy.

[Rising Phoenix]

176. 100% Irish baby

[nini]

177. German and Portuguese... I look Portuguese but am 3/4 German

those Portuguese genes are very strong.

:D

[Zomby Woof]

197. ...and 4/4 BEAUTIFUL!

:loveya: :bounce:

Inside and out!

[huskerlaw]

179. Scotch, Irish, English, Danish and German

Euro-Mutt!

[trackfan]

180. Italian

[LibertyLover]

181. Almost 100% Irish

with a smidgeon of Scots. If you go way back to about 1100, then some Norman as well.

[Phillycat]

182. 75% Sicilian, 25% Slavic.

[derby378]

183. I'm half-Polish - the rest is English, Irish, and maybe German

[Fox Mulder]

184. German, Austrian, Norweigan, and Chippewa.

[Ramsey]

185. WASP

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, on both my parents side. Mostly English and a little Welsh

[bertha katzenengel]

186. Dad's ancestors - 1874 from Walheim, South Russia - now part of Poland

Mom's - Scotland, German, English. I think.

:hi:

[bigwillq]

189. Italian (nt)

[sabra]

190. Jewish - Russia, Poland, German, Hungry, & Israel

Unfortunately my grandfather lost most of his family during WWII

[baldguy]

192. Ardipithecus, Australopithecus

Homo habilis
Homo rudolfensis
Homo georgicus
Homo ergaster
Homo erectus
Homo cepranensis
Homo antecessor
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo rhodesiensis
Homo sapiens

[Floogeldy]

193. Smartass

:rofl:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

195. I was in Anthropology 200

Good one ;)

[femmocrat]

194. Czechoslovakian (100%)

All 4 grandparents. I still have family over there... hope to visit them someday.

[Kashka-Kat]

198. 100% Slovenian

[schmuls]

199. German, Austrian, Norwegian and English