Ancestory

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I'm English and Scottish, apparently there's some Irish in there somewhere but we're talking three or four generations back. I'm always told that I look Scottish or Irish, although apparently my accent is "super-English" according to a Canadian friend.
 
My dad's side is Bavarian/Czech with a flavor of Blackfoot Native American. My mother's is pretty my wholly Scottish/Irish with flecks of Germany thrown in.

But hey, I'm related to Robert Plant. So that's cool.
 
The major groups in my ancestry are Welsh, English, Scots-Irish, Norwegian and French on my dad's side and English, Scottish, French, Québécois, German, and Dutch on my mother's side.

Being an eighth-generation Mormon on my dad's side, my family history is incredibly well-documented - such that I can claim tiny bits of ancestry from nearly every other country of Western Europe and one Native American tribe if I go far enough back. The groups mentioned above are limiting it to the last five hundred years.

My father's family lived in northern Mexico for four generations, although none of us can ethnically be considered Latino (except my uncle's wife and their children, who are Mexican-American). After my dad was born in Chihuahua, the family moved back to the US.
 
My ancestry is weird. I'm grew up thinking I was mostly Irish with some Swedish, English, Scotish, and French. But as a teenager, I learned that I also had Polish and German ancestry. Around this time, I got a whole "What are you?" questions, which was very strange because as a little kid, I was unmistakably a dark haired white girl. But as a teen, I guess my face shape changed because people thought I looked rather Asian and didn't believe me when I told them I was white. Eventually, I chalked it up to having some Genghis Khan rape heritage from my Slavic side.

I also did a DNA test a couple of years ago to see where I had ancestry was from, tracing it from my paternal grandfather and beyond. The results I got were....weird. Most of them were from modern day Latin American countries. While I never met my paternal grandpa, judging by his obituary, he seemed to be of Polish and German descent, not Latino. Maybe someone was a milkman baby in his family tree. The only thing that made sense was that I apparently also had Chinese and Romani ancestry as well.

Nowadays, I just tell people I'm Irish and Eastern European, sometimes adding that I have Asian ancestry if they get really inquiring. One of these days, I really want to cover my family tree to see what I'm really am.
 
TheMightyMonarch said:
My ancestry is weird. I'm grew up thinking I was mostly Irish with some Swedish, English, Scotish, and French. But as a teenager, I learned that I also had Polish and German ancestry. Around this time, I got a whole "What are you?" questions, which was very strange because as a little kid, I was unmistakably a dark haired white girl. But as a teen, I guess my face shape changed because people thought I looked rather Asian and didn't believe me when I told them I was white. Eventually, I chalked it up to having some Genghis Khan rape heritage from my Slavic side.

I also did a DNA test a couple of years ago to see where I had ancestry was from, tracing it from my paternal grandfather and beyond. The results I got were....weird. Most of them were from modern day Latin American countries. While I never met my paternal grandpa, judging by his obituary, he seemed to be of Polish and German descent, not Latino. Maybe someone was a milkman baby in his family tree. The only thing that made sense was that I apparently also had Chinese and Romani ancestry as well.

Nowadays, I just tell people I'm Irish and Eastern European, sometimes adding that I have Asian ancestry if they get really inquiring. One of these days, I really want to cover my family tree to see what I'm really am.
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Have you ever tried getting your DNA tested with 23andMe? They're the coolest. You spit into a tube, ship it off to them, get it analyzed for a few weeks, and get your ancestry composition and such! Here is mine:

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The obvious from this chart is that I'm half Chinese due to my mom, and half Euro-Mutt due to my dad. But what makes me scratch my head is how the ancestry composition doesn't roughly reflect the 1/4 British, 1/8 Irish, and 1/8 German according to my family tree work on Ancestry.com. I've actually traced certain branches back to these physical places. I've also traced certain ancestry back to France and the Netherlands, but these ancestors are like from the 1600s. And I still have yet to find where the > 1.0 % Native American DNA comes from.
 
Mostly swedish and german with bits of irish and stuff.
My great grandpa or something like that liked to claim that he was "full blooded german" but you know how that goes...

One interesting thing to note is that I'm apparently a direct descendant of Geoffrey Chaucer.
 
Half-Dutch Australian.
My Mother is a full-blooded Dutch who was born just after their family reached Australia.
My father had an adopted father and a middle-class 3rd-Gen Australian, so there is little to work on that side.
 
On my father's side is Scottish of Western Isles stock, and his mother is of French-Canadian stock. I assume the Scottish side got over here in the 19th century through Nova Scotia to look for gold, or probably something else; the French-Canadians were likely Huguenots who came to New France to escape persecution.

My mother's side we're not quite sure of. Her uncle traced their ancestry back to a 17th or 18th century Hessian from Spangenberg in present day Germany, who likely came to South Carolina as a mercenary and decided to stay, and that was on her mother's side. Since most Germans are descended from tribes that splintered off 9th century Vikings, I could probably safely assume that side of the family can be traced back to Scandinavia if we looked farther into it. Now, my mother's father - judging by his surname - was likely of English and/or Irish stock, because a google search links my mother's maiden name to England and Ireland; it also might explain why my mother seems to think it's Irish tradition to eat corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day. Other than that, no fucking clue.

TL;DR - Mostly Celtic, a lot of Germanic, all probably saying "fuck that country" as they came over to the States from wherever.
 
My mom's side mostly comes from Scottish and German stock, but there's some French and Swedish in there, too.

My father's side is mostly Irish and English, but there's also a fair amount of Lakota Sioux.

I'm just an American mutt.
 
Mourning Dove said:
Have you ever tried getting your DNA tested with 23andMe? They're the coolest. You spit into a tube, ship it off to them, get it analyzed for a few weeks, and get your ancestry composition and such! Here is mine:

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The obvious from this chart is that I'm half Chinese due to my mom, and half Euro-Mutt due to my dad. But what makes me scratch my head is how the ancestry composition doesn't roughly reflect the 1/4 British, 1/8 Irish, and 1/8 German according to my family tree work on Ancestry.com. I've actually traced certain branches back to these physical places. I've also traced certain ancestry back to France and the Netherlands, but these ancestors are like from the 1600s. And I still have yet to find where the > 1.0 % Native American DNA comes from.
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I think I've only heard of that place once or twice but it sounds neat. I'll definitely do that in a heartbeat if I wasn't on a tight ship regarding cash. Maybe sometime in the near future though. Also that's weird about your own family tree. Maybe some of your DNA markers are from way back?
 
From what I understand, I'm mostly English, German, Irish, and Acadien with the smallest hint of Mi'kmaq. Basically I'm 50 shades of white.

The only things I know about my ancestry is that my dad's dad's side came from Germany, coming over to Nova Scotia to aid the British when the American Revolution broke out. It's not known why my (beyond distant) grandfather didn't go back to Germany, but he stayed in Nova Scotia, purchased Little Tancook Island, and had two wives with a bunch of kids.
 
Okinawan, Japanese (hush, they are totes different), Filipino, and Chinese. I'm often mistaken for Korean or Latin(x?), though. Funny, that.

My Okinawan-Japanese folks were well-liked doctors and farmers during Hawaii's plantation days. There doesn't seem to be much more to say about them than that...
 
I have unremarkable lineage. I'm Italian as far back as anyone has bothered to trace it. My mother's side worked the land, and distant cousins own a hazelnut farm, today. My father's side has a few outlaws and a soldier who fought for the Union in the Garibaldi Guard (a regiment of non-Irish European immigrants) but for the most part, they worked the sea.

The furthest back I'm actually interested is my Great-grandparents -I know people who knew them, so I feel they have some influence, however small. My Father's Grandfather and Mother's Father were remarkably hard-working and generous men, and I seek to emulate them.
 
My dad's side seems to be mostly German. I was in Germany once some years ago to visit relatives (my uncle Klaus and aunt Uta both died in the recent years, the latter of cirrhosis or another health complication related to alcohol and the former because of depression after her death that debilitated his health. I wish I could see them again, they were good people that had some yummy chocolates. They also loved Brazil, my home country, a lot and Uta spoke some basic Portuguese.) And we had some of them as guests. My grandmother's father was Spanish, so I have that too.

On mother's side, I might have Portuguese or other European roots, maybe mixed with African. Sadly I don't have much more info than that. I might try to have my DNA checked one day, to know for sure.

So I am probably 90% white cis scum #privileged #oneparcint
 
Dork Of Ages said:
My dad's side seems to be mostly German. I was in Germany once some years ago to visit relatives (my uncle Klaus and aunt Uta both died in the recent years, the latter of cirrhosis or another health complication related to alcohol and the latter because of depression after her death that debilitated his health. I wish I could see them again, they were good people that had some yummy chocolates. They also loved Brazil, my home country, a lot and Uta spoke some basic Portuguese.) And we had some of them as guests.

My grandmother's father was Spanish, so I have that too.



On mother's side, I might have Portuguese or other European roots, maybe mixed with African. Sadly I don't have much more info than that. I might try to have my DNA checked one day, to know for sure.

So I am probably 90% white cis scum #privileged #oneparcint
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