What is your heritage?

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This is a bit of a spinoff from yesterday's question of the day. :)




I am a true American mutt. :lol3: My ancestors were French, Polish and Portuguese.
 

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To my knowledge, Wales, Scotland and Corwall.  All very British!
 

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English, Ukranian, French and Cree Indian.  Because of the French and Cree, I'm considered "Metis" in Canada.

Percentage of each:

English:  My Dad's Father was 100% English. That makes me 25%

Cree:  My Dad's Mom was 50% French and 50% Cree Indian.That makes me 12.5% French and 12.5% Cree.

Ukrainian:  My Mom's Mother was 100% Ukrainian. That makes me 25%

French:  My Mom's Dad was 100% French. That makes me 25%
 

Totals:

English 25%

Ukrainian:  25%

French: 37.5 %

Cree Indian: 12.5 %
 

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My grandparents came from Naples, Italy.  My parents were born here, Dad in PA and Mom in NJ.  So   I'm a full-blooded Italian.
 
 

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I really don't know. My ancestors on my Dad's side were in this country when the first census was done. I am not sure about my mother's family since I didn't grow up knowing them.
 

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Very much German on both sides...we have genealogical (is that spelled correctly??)  books going way, way back, for both my mom and my dad's sides of the family; my mom's book goes all the way to where my ancestors made their way from Germany to England and then boarded the Loyal Judith for New York; that was in the early 1700s, I think. My paternal great-grandfather married a full Cherokee woman, so that gave us some Cherokee blood, too. I've had a copy of my dad's ancestral book, but just got my mother's when she passed away. It's all very interesting, but rather complicated in some spots, too.
 

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I am very much a product of the American melting pot.  Irish, Norwegian, German and Cherokee.  I think there might be either something else in the mix or more Cherokee than I know about because I am dark with dark brown hair and brown eyes.  
 

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Primarily French, German, and English.

French & German on my mother's side and English and German on my father's side.
 

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i'm German, born and raised in Germany. my great grandmother on my mom's side was french
 

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I'm a 4th generation Texan on my dad's side; his great-grandparents were from Prussia. My mother is from Frankfurt am Main and came to the U.S. as a war bride. I have a few heirlooms from my mother's side of the family that survived WWI and WWII; one is dated from the 1700's; others from the 1800's. We figured out that our daughter will be the 10th generation (in an unbroken line) to inherit these items. That's pretty cool. 
 
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I'm 50% Italian, 25% German, about 22.5% Polish and the rest is Greek. 


I'm a 3rd generation American on 3 sides and the other side I'm a 4th generation American.  DH's family predates the Civil war and he is supposed to have blood ties to one well known American explorer (I just can't remember which at the moment).  He knows he has some Scottish and German ancestry in him and possibly Irish; but again his family has been here so long it's not something he grew up hearing about.
 

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I am a mixed bag - a moggie :lol2: Irish, Swedish, Lithuanian. My mother's family - the Irish/Lithuanian. Dad's side is just about pure Swede with a touch of Norge. :)
 

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I don't really know as nobody has done a lot of research on it.

I think my dad's family is all British. His mom grew up in Nova Scotia, apparently of Scottish descent. His dad. . .looked like a Kennedy :lol3:, so I suppose he may have been Irish, although our last name is English. I don't know their mothers' maiden names. My dad has always been told he was related to Alexander Graham Bell (Scottish? I think) and one of the women who was hanged as a witch in Salem. My brother found records of people with our last name getting on a ship at Cornwall to come to the U.S., but apparently Cornwall was a big port area and people came there from all over the British Isles to get on ships, so no guarantee where they came from originally.

My mom's family is a lot more mixed up. My grandpa's last name is Welsh. His mother's maiden name was Irish. But he claimed there was a lot of French Canadian in his background, and also said that one of his ancestors was on the Mayflower (but he said a lot of things. . .:tongue2:). My grandma's maiden name was French. Her mother's maiden name was Austrian/German.

I am very pale with black hair. From my dad's side, I think. But I have brown eyes and he has green eyes.
 

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Based on research done by me and others I am British, Scots, German, French, Irish, Dutch, and Italian. There is family lore of Native American but hard to prove. My ancestor who is the source of my last name arrived in the USA about 1838. The rest of the ancestors all arrived before the American Revolution and some were part of the earliest settlements in Virginia in the 1600s.

According to DNA analysis (through ancestry .com ) I also have Scandinavian roots. (Probably ones who pillaged/settled in Scotland or England.)
 

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I'm half Italian, (dad),  & my mom is half German & half Dutch, so That makes a quarter of each for me. My dad's dad came over from Italy. His mom, was already here. One from Naples & the other from Sicily. I forget which is from which.
 
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