What's your ancestry

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Canadian (Irish/Scottish Canadian), English, and some Mediterranean. Probably have like one percent indigenous just because of how long the family has been here and the fact that multiple family members spoke Mi'gma'gi due to running shops in indigenous areas.
 
Libyan. Mother is part English and Northern Berber, father is part Italian and Northern Berber. Most of us from the coast are colonized Euro mutts since the Greco Roman Era.
 
Weird mix of Dutch, Scots-Irish and Native American for the most part. Our family names have been anglicized several times over but I have learned to be okay with being descended from the niggers of Europe. Wish I'd been clever enough to pull a Pocahontas and use the Native thing for gibs though.
 
My father's side are descended from conquistadors who crushed the Aztec empire along side Hernando Cortez, and my mother's side were a family of Italian nobility. They had crossed keys on a yellow shield for a coat of arms, and once ran the most respected locksmith's guild in all of Venice.



Now all that's ancient history, and I'm just a regular schmuck like anyone else.
 
British as far back as I've been able to trace (which isn't super far) grandpa's surname says Scottish ancestry to go along with the Anglo Saxon (Probably some Norman blood muddying it up being all French and yucky), his name was Turnbull which apparently goes back to Robert the Bruce giving that name to one of his lords. Other than that little tidbit there's nothing impressive in my heritage as far as I can tell. The Turnbulls have cool tartan, though, I guess. I'm English, though, so I ain't wearing no stinking skirt.
 
Somewhere down the line, attila raped my dacian great grandma and that's how my country was
 
I've ordered a DNA kit yesterday and had a rummage through the family tree builder on the site.

After just putting in the most basic info about my parents and one set of grandparents, I've linked up to a family tree that someone else has done that goes back through 11 direct line ancestors, the fathers in the earliest records being born in 1629 and 1633. That would put them at 20 and 16 when Charles 1st was beheaded. The right age and area to get properly stuck in during the English civil war.

Pretty fucking blown away tbf.
 
I'm really wary about those DNA collection/analysis services, although I'm sure it's probably unfounded paranoia. I've seen some that analyze predisposition for hereditary diseases and whatnot, which is pretty neat.

I'm German, Irish, and some Japanese, mainly. Supposedly there's French someplace in there too. My Ma was put up for adoption as a baby (Japanese women having kids outside of wedlock is apparently a huge deal) and never had any contact with them, so my lineage on that side is very hazy. Her dad in particular remains a complete mystery, but I know my family comes from Okinawa originally.

Paternal grandparents are second generation immigrants from Germany and Ireland, supposedly the Germans left due to opposition of Hitler (I already checked the Jew angle, our family was historically catholic and we had family members in the Hitler youth) and the Irish had moved over shortly before the war. I've yet to investigate before that, my extended family is very large so it's a fair bet somebody else has done a lot of legwork for the family trees already.
 
All German through my dad, half German half english through my mum. All ancestors moved over to this particular part of Australia in the 1830s and stayed put
 
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1/3 Scottish (biggest category)
Rest English, Irish, German, minor Scandinavian like most British have

Ethnic American/Amerikaner

Funny story, my Mom's great-grandpa or something came over in the Potato Famine, but we ended up finding out (Ancestry.com) that he was Scots-Irish (Ulsterman), not Irish as such.
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I got an actual Ancestry test now instead of just averaging my parent's results.

I apparently inherited all of their Scandinavian and little of their Scot.
I figured out through records that my Pa's descendants were Highland Scots.


Since Sithis mentioned Dutch, Ancestry doesn't really distinguish Dutch from English, but I know that I had several generations of Highlanders living in New York marrying Dutch women. Like, three or four in a row married Dutch New Netherlanders. I don't know if there was a shortage of women or if they had a congenital fetish. Have wondered if it may have been because Scots and Dutch are both Calvinists (though Highlanders tended to be Catholic, not Calvinist) and so a foreign Calvinist may have been considered more acceptable of a match than an English Anglican.
 
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German, Irish, Filipino, some Czech.

100% German from my mom
Half irish, little less than half flip, tiny bit Czech from my dad.
I look mostly Irish.
 
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Old stock American. Something like 70-90% of my DNA is from the British Isles, mostly England, but a good bit Irish & Scottish as well. The rest is German (mostly Swiss German) and Scandinavian. The German is more recent (I’m from a state with little historical immigration, we got some German speaking folks, but that was it) and I’d imagine the Scandinavian is probably old since many people from the British Isles have decent rates of Viking ancestry. I know through genealogy work that I have some French ancestry, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the English.
 
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