Your heritage

edited 2014-03-06 22:02:12 in Talk
I thought this might be interesting...

Myself, on my mother's side, I am German and Scottish, and on my father's side, I am Ethiopian. Don't know what particular ethnic group, though, and can't ask, because I am estranged from his side of the family.

My mother also may have Jewish ancestors...
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  • I am 3/4s Irish, My mother is half Irish. Half English,

    Some of my ancestors were on the Mayflower.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    ^^ Probably at least a few Jewish ancestors on your dad's side too, AU, depending on what group his family's from.

    My dad's family are European Jewish, mostly from Germany and Poland, with Dutch and Russian ancestors thrown in; my mom's family is a mix of most of the ethnic groups of the British Isles (primarily from Wales and the North), plus French and Low German.
  • edited 2014-03-06 22:15:09
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i am thoroughly British, and predominantly English.  Some of my ancestors were Welsh, or at least lived in Wales.  i have some Jewish ancestry on my dad's side of the family.

    my surname is Norman in origin.
  • edited 2014-03-07 16:29:20
    kill living beings
    1/32nd Cherokee

    UPDATWE: i have been informed that the thundrous blood of the naacal runs through me

  • borne from first-generation peasant immigrants from Guangdong
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Swedish. Thoroughly Swedish.
  • On my mom's side I've got Jamaican and Barbadian ties, though she herself is from New Jersey

    My dad is ambiguously African-American,as far as my understanding is concerned
  • edited 2014-03-07 00:28:07
    More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    I am descended from Italians, Austrians, white people, and a Native American group of some sort, I don't even know.
  • Nothing but English and Welsh blood in me, as far as I'm aware...
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    English and German on the one side, Apache on the other

    But I'm 100% Imi
  • German, Irish, and some Cherokee somewhere on my father's side, on my mother's side I was adopted and that information's basically lost.
  • There was Ukraine and Kossak ancestry on my mother's side and Estonian on my father's
  • Also, everyone is a descendant of Charlemagne, or so I've heard
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I don't think I am. It's possible, but unlikely.

    Anyway my mother's folks are Teochew, from Chaoshan, eastern China. My dad's folks are Hokkien, from Fujian, southern China.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    A little of everything, like most white people in America.
  • edited 2014-03-07 11:00:40
    kill living beings
    don't worry lin you can be part genghis khan instead

    i prolly ain't russian enough to have any chinggis in me, o well
  • Norwegian, various 8ritish Isles type peoples, French, German, some sort of Slavic, and one of my mom's maternal grandparents was Jewish.

    I'm your 8asic Euromutt.
  • Jamaican, completely, and as far back as I know.

    You never mentioned you were part Jamaican, Tre.
  • my dad's side is british. 100% british. you go back as far as you can and theyre all just farming away in this tiny village in cheshire. also a tiny bit of scottish, but t is only tiny.

    my mum's side is the interesting one. she is the american one so there is ancestry from, as far as i can tell, alll the boring northern european countries (germany, netherlands, england) but because of the way america is probably a bit of just about everything. most interesting is you can trace her side back to the man who shot and killed King William II with an arrow. regicide in my family hell yea
  • my family is like 75% german and 25% something british or other

    v exciting
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Mother's DNA test came back, and it turns out in addition to the Scottish and German there is also Scandinavian (prompting her to spend hours going on about how we're "Vikings"), and small amounts of Italian, Irish, and Greek. No Jewish though.
  • edited 2016-03-29 04:11:59
    Some of my ancestors were probably African.

    That, or dragons.  Who knows.
  • meow meow meowtherfuckers
    my dad is cuban/spanish and my mom is typical white person lineage
  • White colonial Euromutt signing in; Austrian, Polish, English, and Irish at the very least. 

    Being an Australian with Austrian heritage is a regular source of amusement.  
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.


    Anonus' new theme song.
  • White colonial Euromutt signing in; Austrian, Polish, English, and Irish at the very least. 


    Being an Australian with Austrian heritage is a regular source of amusement.  
    Austrialien
  • Splat Charger Specialist
    African as well as Irish with Cree and Pamunkey Native American lineage.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    *Native American high-five*
  • *Native American high-five*

    My common ancestor with you might have been more recent than my common ancestor with...I dunno, some other people.  Thanks to that land bridge.
  • Splat Charger Specialist

    *Native American high-five*

    I don't generally stake a claim to it, since neither my parents nor grandparents grew up with those cultures. (Granted, the Pamunkey culture was more or less wiped out.)

    Also I believe I am related to President Van Buren by marriage?
  • The serious answer is that for the most part, I come from the remnants of a once-notable Dutch family. Technically, if you wanted to get on your high horse, we are a cadet family.

    There's some other stuff mixed in there (mostly German and Belgian), but nothing I really celebrate, and it seriously is like 95% Dutch.
  • Well since Jane posted her serious answer I might as well post mine.

    My parents are Chinese.  That's all I know.
  • German and a mix of all the British isles stuff (minus welsh) on my dad's side, Czech, Slovak, Russian and Italian on my Mom's, so 100 percent Euromutt.
  • kill living beings

    UPDATWE: i have been informed that the thundrous blood of the naacal runs through me

    what in the hell
  • I'm freaking Filipino.
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    UPDATWE: i have been informed that the thundrous blood of the naacal runs through me

    what in the hell
    I am descended from the peoples of Mu
  • I'm a quarter Swedish (through my maternal grandfather) and the rest is the usual white people mix. Mostly English/Scottish I think, on my dad's side at least.
  • Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    Family is originally from Marwar ('the region of death'), Rajasthan. We're from the Bansal gotra, from the Agrawal clan (or tribe, or something), from the Baniya caste (literally "bourgeoisie": we were usurers). They settled in Bihar about a century ago. That's my ethnic origin.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    That is more precision than anyone else will bring, haha.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    my ancestors did stuff
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    One of my ancestors was the only Union general to have a statue standing in the South, which was also one of the only statues in that part of New Orleans to survive Katrina.
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    my ancestors did stuff

    As described in the Iron Maiden song, Run To The Hills
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Actually not quite. That song is about the Cree people, while I (or half of me, anyway) am from the Apache.

    Do yer homework
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Weren't the Apache renowned as great warriors?
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    As described in the Deadliest Warrior episode, Apache vs Gladiator
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  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Weren't the Apache renowned as great warriors?

    Yes, which is probably why I was confused.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    The Apache will kill the fuck out of you
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Geronimo was an Apache.
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