What's your cultural/ national decent.

[Longgrain]

Like many of you I see myself as being an American. I was born here as were my parents and most of my grandparents...but our family hasn't been in this country as long as some (tho much longer than some others.)

I'm 1/4 Lithuanian, 1/4 French-Canadian, a quarter Polish, 1/8 Swedish and the rest of Me's all Irish.

Mostly Caucasian/ Eastern European decent for me, tho there is a Jewish strain from the Lithuanian side of my family...

I only ask because my sister is in the process of adopting three boys, brothers, two who are part Native American and one who is part African...I'm looking forward to seeing a little more diversity in my family.

So where do you come from...:)

[Placebo]

1. 1/4 Lithuanian, 1/4 Polish, 1/2 Mexican...

What are ya gonna do! :shrug:

[Longgrain]

5. I see you and I are half and half

equal Lithuanian/ Polish mix...

It's funny, I don't meet too many other Lituanians...

[Placebo]

13. Lithuania is great...

I really want to go there someday. I hear it's so beautiful.

[Longgrain]

19. I've been in love with Russia

and it's "satellite" countries for so long...

I know a lot of people get hung up on visiting France or Italy or Spain... but I've always felt a certain romanticism toward Eastern Europe...

It must just be my personality :shrug:

[Placebo]

20. Probably...

plus the people there are so pretty. ;)

[JohnKleeb]

68. eastern europeans in general

are, plus great people who know how to cook well.

[FarLeftRage]

2. Italian and French

With some Irish, English, Scottish and German blood added in...

[Maestro]

3. A mixture

of English and Irish; mostly English.

[ogradda]

4. well let's see...

i'm 1/2 irish, 1/8 english, 1/8 welsh, 1/8 scottish and 1/8 *gasp* french. :)

[curse10]

6. Mostly German with some Irish and English blood thrown in

I tend to identify with the German side more- probably because I'm only a second generation American on that side of the family. I have lots of relatives still over there

[laheina]

83. Interestingly enough

This is exactly my situation. The only difference being that because my mother's parents had fled during WWII, and because of odd family dynamics, I don't have any contact with the family in Germany.

Every once in a while, however, I will learn an odd tidbit about German culture that explains a lot about my family's habits. It's usually one of those forehead slapping "that's why we do that" moments.

[Nikia]

7. pre Civil War, mostly colonial American

I am mostly of European decent with some Native American and perhaps some other too. My ancestors come from most European countries, some migrated within Europe before coming to the U.S. I do have some Jewish hertiage from Germany, but also ones who migrated within Europee. Sometimes, I wish that I could give percentages or had an ethnic heritage. I don't like the term mutt. I prefer the term multiethnic. If I lived in any other country though, I'd be considered a member of that ethnicity since my families have been in the country for so long.

[ikojo]

8. My mom was born here as were

her father (barely..his parents arrived one year before he was born) and mother...

Before that, my mom's grandparents came from Eastern Europe....the boundaries changed so often it's easier to say Eastern Europe.

On my father's side...

He was born here.

his mom was born in Kentucky (Irish) and his dad came from Ireland.

[auntAgonist]

9. Born and raised in Scotland to Scottish born and raised parents of

Scottish born and, well you get the idea, moved to Canada at age 10 going on 11, moved to USA 4.5 years ago.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

73. I love a Scottish brogue.

It's my favorite accent of all. When I get my daughter out of college I am going to Scotland on vacation. :)

[Padraig18]

10. 100% bog-trotting Irish!

Born and bred!

:)

[NNadir]

11. About 1/2 German, 1/4 Scotch, Irish, Austrian, Hungarian bits.

My kids take that, throw in 1/4 Italian.

[fluffernutter]

12. 3 boys? your sister is a saint.

i think that is SO damn cool! you'll have to tell me more about that sometime, how interesting. Friday night at the party i went to there was a lady holding a little 18mo old Chinese girl. that baby had just that day come here from an orphanage there. i saw her, and i sobbed right there.

anyway, about your question. i am scandanavian & german on my father's side and spanish & french on my mother's.

[Longgrain]

14. Thanks Re: my sister

Her and her husband have been married for about 7 years and still no kids, you know?

I haven't met them yet but the the youngest one is four, the oldest, I think, is about eight or nine.

The whole family is excited, at least I know my mother is--having no grandchildren of her own.

Luv ya...but you already knew that...
:hi:

[fluffernutter]

18. sniff

that is just so touching. i hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.

[Longgrain]

36. I have nothing to say to you but...

come here my little sweettart...:hug:

Maybe i'll see you tommorrow in the P.M.;)

[Sanity Claws]

15. Irish

[CO Liberal]

16. Half Lithuanian - The Rest Irish, Scottish, and Alsacian

I have ancestors who came from the province of Alsace-Lorraine, which has alternated between France and Germany over the centuries. They came here as Hessian soldiers, fighting for the British during the Revolution, and stayed.

My mother tried to join the DAR once, but they turned her down - her ancestors fought on the wrong side.

[Longgrain]

22. Another Lithuanian...

:thumbsup:

I've only found out a little about my family over there...my real family name was Stoncious (it has been Englished to Stone) or some thing like that...

Apparently my great-grandparents were big land owners over there before the Russian occupation...

I wish I had more details...

[Placebo]

43. As were mine...

industrialists I believe. Owned a bunch of factories before the fucking commies rolled in.

[Longgrain]

47. Yep, Sounds a lot like my ancestory...

Somehow, I'm kind of a socialist myself, social--anarcist who votes Democrat that is...I think communism looks good on paper, it just doesn't work out too well in real life...

Too many people get "left out"...

My Lithuanian ancesters were also, at least, part Jewish, which might explain why they came over here to the U.S.

Anyways, thanks Placebo.

[melnjones]

17. Amish

I'm not Amish...as I'm typing this from my laptop:-) But my father was raised Amish, my mom's father was raised Amish, and my mom's mom's parents were raised Amish. A good portion of my family is bilingual, speaking also low German (Pennsylvania Dutch). The rest of the world doesn't see the many problems found in the Amish community. My ancestors many generations back were Swiss and German. So, talk about coming from a conservative background:-)

[Longgrain]

37. Amazing story...

we're all from somewhere.

Me myself, I've never been to a synagogue in my life, but I know I have "Hebrew" blood in me...

Thanks for telling your story and welcome to DU :hi:

[fluffernutter]

48. that is so interesting.

do you get to see your relatives since you yourself aren't Amish?

welcome to DU :)

[melnjones]

78. I'm lucky

My family doesn't practice shunning like a lot of Amish communities do. Well, a few of them might shun me if they knew how much I'm not a republican;-) I really have a beautiful family that I'm very grateful for. My dad was one of 10 kids, and his parents were born into huge families as well, so our family reunions are enormous to say the least. In Amish/Mennonite communities it's hilarious because everyone is related to everyone else...I have first cousins on my dad's side who are fourth cousins on my mom's side, first cousins on my mom's side who are also third cousins on my mom's side, etc etc. Everyone is related somehow. And they keep amazing records...on some points of my family tree I can trace my ancestry back to the 1600's (and probably even further if I tried to) with names and locations. On the whole scheme of things, my heritage is pretty unique:-)

[HEyHEY]

21. yowza this is tricky

half Irish, 1/4 English, 1/8 dutch 1/8 native 1/4 scottish.

That's it I think...the math is probably all buggered up

[FuzzySlippers]

32. I think that comes out to 1 & 1/4.

[HEyHEY]

35. I knew I'd screw it all up

Well...that's the mix as I understand it...so....uh....one must be of the mark or something

[SarahB]

23. Just over half English (with some Scot thrown in), then Swedish and

and about 1/16th German

[City Lights]

24. 1/2 German, 1/4 Latvian, 1/4 Polish.

Only 1 of my four grandparents (mother's mother) was born here. My mother's father arrived when he was around 6. My father's mother arrived when she was 16, and my father's father when he was in his early 20's.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

65. Hey, another 1/4 Latvian!

My maternal grandfather came from Vecpiebalga.

[enigmatic]

25. 1/2 Scots-Irish, 1/4 Ojibwa, 1/4 French-Canadian

I'm happy w/ it...

[babylonsister]

26. I've always been told

1/2=Scot(Scotch?:shrug:)/Irish/English and 1/2=German

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

27. Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh and 1/8 Cherokee

[Left Is Write]

28. Almost entirely Norwegian with a smidge of Swedish for good measure.

My parents and grandparents were born here; I think a couple of my great-grandparents were born here, but most were born in the "old" countries.

[eyepaddle]

29. 1/4 Norwegian 1/4 Swedish 1/4 Slovak

and 1/4 some mixture of Scottish, English and Irish (not Scotch-Irish)

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Part Irish, Swedish, Welsh, English..probably some other shit in there too

[Flammable Materials]

31. Dutch ... and I'm trying to get back there.

http://www.flammablematerials.com/

[Maccagirl]

33. 3/4 German, 1/4 Scotch-Irish

Not very exotic here in ole USA, but maybe in Japan.

[RebelOne]

34. My ancestors on both mother and father's sides

are from the British Isles, mostly from England and Ireland and a few from Scotland.

[Baja Margie]

38. I''m 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Jewish

But I've said that before, not here, on another site and was jumped on all over, people took offense and told me I couldn't be half-Jewish, because that is a religion, not a race. So, you could say 1/2 Catholic, 1/2 Jewish, I guess. I don't know. Anyway, the Orthodox Jewish people cannot stand for someone to say that they are 1/2 Jewish. They have a derogatory term for that. And yet, My great-grandmother, grandmother, mother were all Jewish, etc, etc, going back to forever.

Whatever.


Mike is PURE Russian, all the way. YIKES !!!

[u4ic]

39. Ukrainian

and add some Polish to the mixture.

[aQuArius]

40. 1/4 German, 1/8 Danish, 1/8 French-Canadian, 1/16 Irish, 1/16 British...

1/32 Scottish, 1/32 Norweigan and then we've lost some of the geneology.....

[blue neen]

41. Swedish, German, and English.

Happy St. Lucia Day! (a little late). :)

[flamingyouth]

42. Swedish and Welsh

[RevolutionaryActs]

44. As far as I know I'm a quarter Irish, German, Norwegian, and English

I think its English anyway.. it might be Scottish, I don't remember. lol

[GOPisEvil]

45. 100% Greek

I was adopted by an American couple (my dad native-born American, my mom Japanese - naturalized).

[loudestchick]

97. love greek men! opah!

[Cuban_Liberal]

46. Complicated. :P

There's Cuban and Mexican, which is about as useful as saying 'casserole'. The breakdown would be a mixture of Spanish, Caribe, African and I suspect Aztec, and God knows what else.

:)

[Mabeline]

49. American Indian/Swedish/Scot/French/German/English/French

and probably a few I have forgotten...I do genealogy.

[Frogtutor]

50. Mostly German; some English and Dutch...

But the only ancestor (with my maiden name) that's been traced is the German one that came over pre-Revolutionary war.

[TexasLady]

51. English-Scotch-Irish

with a bit of Choctaw in there somewhere.

Me and two of my kids were all born blonde with brown eyes, and I have two red heads.

Texasman is Norwegian and German, and cah-YUTE!:D(had to throw that in there )

[Wapsie B]

52. German and Polish

on my Dad's side and pure scandahoovian (Norwegian) on Mom's side.
You betcha!

[laura888]

53. 100% Kraut

Just cuz my parents wanted to please their parents by marrying good Lutheran Germans. They're divorced now.

[vixengrl]

54. My ancestors are (deep breath).

English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Cherokee (or so I've been told--that was a while back.)

Me, I come from Philadelphia, if anyone asks. It just about explains my accent.

[scarlet_owl]

55. Mexican, Irish, French, and German.

[Aristus]

56. Celtic.

Easier than saying Anglo-Welsh-Scots-Irish-Franco-American.



Much easier! B-)

[the Princess]

57. Italian - German - Native American

Or so I am told. :)

[Magrittes Pipe]

58. 3/4 German, 1/4 Irish.

[deadparrot]

59. Very German, some Irish, Swiss, and Belgian. nt

[hickman1937]

60. German, Irish, Scottish, usta be Polish.

My greatgrandfather was Polish till his 40's. His dad died on the boat over and everyone on the boat was Polish, so greatgrandpa went into a Polish orphanage. When he was in his 40's his Irish aunts tracked him down. Overnight the family got a new identity.

[Seabiscuit]

61. 1/4 French, Irish, English and German.

[liberalhistorian]

62. My ancestry is

Irish, English, French, and German. My son is all of those, plus Romanian, since his father is half German and half Romanian.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

63. 1/2 Norwegian (like a large part of the population of Minnesota)

1/4 German, 1/4 Latvian.

The Scandinavian-German combination is almost boring in Minnesota term, but you don't find too many people who are part Latvian. :-)

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

71. My mom is from Minnesota too.

Her ancestory is 100% German, which is why I say I am half German. My dad is half Polish and half French-Canadian.

My mom and dad are divorced. The guy my mom is living with for the past 10 years is a German (born and raised). My husband's family is all German too.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

64. 1/2 German ,1/4 French-Canadian, 1/4 Polish

[devilgrrl]

66. Italian/English

Grew up with the Italian side of the family.

[JohnKleeb]

67. I am

1/4 Irish
1/4 Swiss-German
1/4 Slovak
1/4 Slovene
and rumored to be some Russian.

[njdemocrat106]

69. 1/2 Irish, 1/2 Polish

Definitely more raised on the Polish side of the family, even though I've got an ultra-Irish name, and the map of Ireland on my face to boot!

[BamaGirl]

70. Lol Southern....and a 1/4 Cherokee ;)

I'm 13th generation American (via Tennessee and Virginia). I never think of myself as being anything but American or Southern or Cherokee (my grandmother is Cherokee). Our ancestry is French Huguenot, Scottish, English, and Irish, but I definitely don't have any % kind of claim to any of them since it was so far in our family's past.

[SW FL Dem]

72. My dad was 100% Swedish, my Mom's ancestors came over on the

Mayflower. They were mostly English with a little German and Dutch thrown in. My hubby's family is Russian Jewish. My son's birth mother was of Irish descent, his birth dad Eastern European. Guess that makes us a perfect American melting pot

[Lone_Star_Dem]

74. 1/4 German 1/2 Italian 1/8 American Indian 1/8 English

In other words, I'm a mutt. :)

[yvr girl]

75. I'm a European Mutt

1/4 English
1/4 German
1/4 Norwegian
1/8 Italian
1/8 Irish

None of my great grandparents were born here, not even all of my grandparent.

[SmileyBoy]

76. 1/2 Turkish, 1/2 Finnish.

Pure halffy, straight down the middle. Both my parents are pure-blooded back to at least the 1850's.

[RandomKoolzip]

77. I am descended from one of the founding fathers, Lyman Hall....

He signed the Declaration of Independence. That's on my dad's side; his family is all British.

My mom is Peruvian.

It's kind of a weird mix; one one hand, I feel as though I've inherited a country, on the other, I feel as though those same "founding fathers" are genociding, imperialist scumbags drunk on power, greed, and racism.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

79. I'm American.

Both my parents were born and raised in Chicago,IL, as were my older sister and my two older brothers and myself.

My paternal grandmother was born and raised in Olewein, IA, daughter of Irish immigrants from Co. Monaghan, Ireland. My paternal grandfathter was born and raised in St. Joseph, MO, the only son of Irish immigrants from Co. Donegal, Ireland.

My maternal grandmother was born and raised in Chicago, IL, daughter of Irish immigrants from Co. Wexford and Co. Tipperary, Ireland. My maternal grandfather was born and raised in Oxfordshire, England and immigrated with his parents to the US when he was 14 in 1912. Grandpa got his citizenship in 1919, after he won two Purple Hearts because he was gassed in World War I in France in 1917-1918 as a private in the US Army under "Black" Jack Pershing.

I could probably say I'm 1/2 Irish and 1/2 English, but both my grandfathers and grandmothers always said it didn't matter where your ancestors came from; if you were lucky enough to be born in the USA, you're an American.

[bloodyjack]

80. 1/2 Jordanian...

1/2 Indian, from Rajasthan, which is a state in India

[Kire]

81. Swedish, Irish, Norwegian, English, French and Dutch

or so I'm told

[donheld]

82. I have 100% German heritage

or so i believe

[Robeson]

84. Irish/English/Norman, but...

....genes are so diffused throughout the world, that nobody is 100% of anything, and we are probably a lot of what each of us doesn't even know.

[Quetzal]

85. 1/4 Korean, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Austrian-Hungarian

1/8 Hawaiian, 1/8 Chinese, and the rest is French and Native American (Kree Tribe)

[Timebound]

86. 25% Cherokee, 25% Sioux, 50% Scotish-Irish

[Withywindle]

87. I'm quite a mix

My dad's family is pre-Revolutionary-War North American Euromutt, mostly Irish.

My mom is Brazilian born and bred (came here as an international student in the 60s) - so my ancestry through her is Portuguese/Native (South) American (and African? Could well be, but it's not documented). She's considered "white" in her hometown, Salvador, but not in the South, like Rio, or the US.

[RagingInMiami]

88. I tell people I am Colombian-American

because my mother was born in Colombia, while my dad was born in Virginia.
But my mother's ancestors came from Barcelona, Spain while my father's ancestors came from Wiesbaden, Germany. They were mennonites who settled in the Shenendoah Valley in Virginia back in the 1700s. That side of the family had long left the mennonite religion.

[DS1]

89. I have it on good authority that there's no decency in me

:-)

[Skittles]

90. half English / half Norwegian

yes INDEED

[Dastard Stepchild]

91. Sicilian and German...

I come from Milwaukee, though :)

My mother's side is Sicilian and my father's side is German, with a sprinkling of Czech (German-Bohemian).

[RUDUing2]

92. mostly french and irish..

I am 1/4 Irish (I guess...my mom and my dad are both 1/4 irish, they each had a parent who was 1/2 irish)...

Moms family is mainly descended from French huguenots..
Dads family is mainly descended from Highland Scots...we also have some from Isle of Skye (Gunn and McLeod Clans)...and a bit of Welsh, English, Native American and Scandanavian thrown in..

Dh's family is German, Welsh, English and Scots...

[loudestchick]

100. Any redheads in the family?

[RUDUing2]

101. not a one...

[Samurai_Writer]

93. 90% dark German-Jew, 10% black Irish

actually, 87.5% and 12.5% if you want to be technical about it.

My dad's parents came from southern Germany and were 'dark Germans' and Jewish ... Dark Germans are a result of dark strains that were introduced during Roman times. The Romans set up people from different areas in charge of conquered people. The people set up to administer for Rome in what is now Germany were mainly from North Africa, survivors of the Punic Wars.

My mom's grandparents all came from Germany except one grandmother, who was from Ireland and was 'Black Irish'. Most people think it was from the 'Spanish' invading Ireland, but it was not the light-skinned Spaniards, but the Spanish Moors.

So I am 2nd generation American on Dad's side, 3rd generation on Mom's. What's funny is that Mom's grandparents and my dad's parents all emigrated to the US about the same time.

I've often been mistaken for hispanic, creole, Italian, Native American and Middle Eastern. Guess any brownskinned ethnicity will do for some people. LOL



Judge for yourself. :)

[SiouxJ]

94. 1/2 Russian, 1/2 Swedish

I'm only second generation American on my mother's side (the Russian) and 3rd on my dad's (the Swedish). So, my family is relatively new here too.

:hi:

[huskerlaw]

95. Dutch, Irish, English, and German

Basically your typical European mutt-mix.

[loudestchick]

96. Not in any way proveable...I'm adopted!

But my youngest child is a flaming redhead!

[Beware the Beast Man]

98. Heinz 57

Ukranian, Slovak, English, German, Irish, Cherokee.

[Eurobabe]

99. German, Italian, Irish, Cherokee