OK, I am doing this poll again...where did your family come from?

[La_Serpiente]

I am doing this again for three reasons:

The other one wasn't in the Lounge

I made a mistake and put Southern asia instead of Southeast Asia

and the Eastern Europeans felt discrimnated against

So I am going to ask this again.

From where did your family come when they immigrated to the US?

[Rowdyboy]

1. Can't vote...

They came from France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands and Germany. Sort of a heinz 57 of western Europe.

[david_vincent]

2. Southern Europe/WASP/Six Nations

n/t

[soothsayer]

3. yay! thanks

from the Slavs

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. Indigenous people of this continent would include S and Central America

"America" actually extends from the Bering Strait to Tierra del Fuego.

Isn't it only in the US that they split it up?

[La_Serpiente]

7. OH MY GAWD

well...ok...I don't know :silly:

[sleipnir]

5. Not too good

Me thinks this poll may not be a prudent move...

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. Russia - Italy - Poland

50% Italian
25% Polish
25% Russian

[JohnKleeb]

West meets East

Northern and Western Europe on my Dad's side(Irish and German)
Southern and Eastern Europe on my Mom's side (Slovak and Slovenian)
So I got the best of both worlds, I am told I look more Eastern then I do Western if this is so, thats sweet, I like looking more eastern. Now the two families may be polar opposites in many respects like well my dad's family is more white collar and my mom's is more blue collar, my dad's family has been here since pre civil war to at the latest 1880's and my mom's has only been here since the early 1910's but both families are Catholic and as Democratic as they get and I enjoy being with relatives of all sides. I love being a mutt.

[supernova]

8. No Germany?

You're leaving out as big an immigrant group as the UK folks, esp Irish.

[La_Serpiente]

10. Northern Europe is supposed to be

Germany...sorry

[supernova]

13. OK

No problem. :hi:

[SiobhanClancy]

9. Ireland..

most of them from County Cork,some from Clare,and one branch from Donegal. I've done quite a bit of research and have traced most of my lines back at least to the 1600s and have yet to find anything other than Irish.

[JohnKleeb]

11. I know a guy who's 100% but hes rumored to have some Hungarian

Its a big family, and you know what no sterotype Irish redheads :D, and in my nana's family, none either. I likely got my dark hair from my mom's side though. BTW my family came from County Galway.

[JohnKleeb]

12. What are you Serp?

[La_Serpiente]

42. Me?

Good heavens, I am a full on mutt.

My great-grandfather came on the second ship from Korea to Hawaii in 1903. I am also Native Hawaiian, Irish, Austrian-Hungarian, French, Chinese, Native American (Kree Tribe)

[JohnKleeb]

44. join the club dude of mutts

Austrian-Hungarian? like what exactly, that means you could be from part of the former Czechoslovakia, the former Yugoslavia and what not, or are you literally Austrian and Hungarian. What a mix btw.

[Piperay]

14. Canada...

Norwegians who came from Canada on one side. On the other side Native Americans who were always here and English and Irish who came here before the Civil War.

[supernova]

15. I claim France

Both maternal grandparents came from the Alsace.

Paternal granparents decended from Scots/English.

[Snow]

16. Never reallythought of myself as that obviously one ethnicity,

but my daughter (age 18) tells me that a classmate told her she could see her Scottish ancestry very clearly -forehead, jawline, mouth, ears (?). The friend is Irish, just moved here - and my daughter's half me and half Korean.

[Amaya]

17. Me..

50% Irish
50% Scandinavian

[CBHagman]

18. Hungary, Ireland, Sweden, and possibly England.

No wonder I'm confused. :-)

[Padraig18]

19. I'm a naturalized citizen

My brothers and I emigrated from Co. Westmeath, Ireland, in 1994. :hi:

[confusionisnext]

20. Both my parents are from Vietnam

But I'm a fuckin 'murcan, for better or for worse.

[Political_Junkie]

21. 7 different nations but

I look 100% Irish (stereotypical Irish redhead here!), don't know how that happens...

[JohnKleeb]

26. welcome to DU, thats interesting

I am a quarter and I look very unIrish, I got pretty dark skin, darker hair, and I got blue eyes which I think is not charactrictally Irish.

[Political_Junkie]

36. that's not necessarily true

there are some Irish around the west coast Galway area that are darker than most, some say it's from an influx of Spaniards. I can't remember when, but their known as the black Irish, though they're not actually black. Also, blue eyes are very Irish (though mine are green; that's from mixing races from what I hear), so you've got that anyway.

[JohnKleeb]

39. Well thanks

And my family was from Galway. Ive heard about the Black Irish. Oh I thought brown eyes were it actually on my eyes, I got that from my mom's side as well. Oh and my nana isnt tan like me or never was. I am not sure what makes me suprisingly dark. Well thanks, I fel dumb.

[DuctapeFatwa]

33. It's the Irish Redhead Conspiracy

The redheads themselves are actually just pawns of the diabolical Sunblock cartel.

[Political_Junkie]

37. ROFLMAO

I like that!

[Cooley Hurd]

22. Ireland, but Bill the Butcher hit my Great-Grandmother...

...in the head with a rock when she alit from the boat. I'll get even though...

[JohnKleeb]

29. heh I think he hit me uncle

You wanna join up and kick some Nativist ass :D. I loved that movie btw. The ending U2 song is very good and above all the movie kicked ass. I bet the Bill the Butchers of the 20's were the ones like calling my grandma's people hunkies.

[woofless]

23. Wales since you left it out of the UK choice.

About 1620 in Sandwich, Barnstable on Cape Cod.

[brook]

35. We go back a long time...

my paternal lines go back to Sandwich then. Maybe our ancestors were friends? I believe it was only about 12 families that settled Sandwich. :hi:

[woofless]

48. Thomas Tobey of Sandwich was our progenitor.

n/t

[parasim]

24. Finnish mostly here.

Although just recently I found out that I am part Saami, which is the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia.

[SmileyBoy]

31. Half-Finnish here...

Also half-Turkish. Although I've probably got a little bit of Russian, Arabic and Iranian (Persian) blood as well.

[marigold20]

59. Ah, the mysterious Finns

Isn't the Finnish language unrelated to any nearby languages?

[parasim]

62. yeah...

I'm just learning about this stuff but from what I understand, Finnish is a Balto-Finnic language which is the largest of the 16 different languages in the Finno-Urgic family.

The Saami language is the one that stands apart from the rest of Finno-Urgic family apparently... it seems that is much more ancient and is used not just in northern Finland but also northern regions of Sweden, Norway, and part of Russia. The area known as Saami-land. These people first moved in to this area around 7000 BC.

It sure is fascinating to learn about but I nowhere near an expert and have a long way to go in understanding the language and customs of my ancestors that are from that area. But it was cool to find out that my grandfather was Saami.

on edit: note - i really am just learning about this stuff and perhaps others on this board that might be so kind to correct me where I may err.

[SOteric]

25. The Mediterranean

[Nikia]

27. Many places but I don't like the term"mutt"

People are not bred for particuliar traits like domestic animals. People have been migrating since there have been people. Even for those of you that are 100% something probably had ancestors 100-1000 years back that migrated from somewhere else to that country or region. As far as having your ancestors further genetically apart, that is a good thing. Genetic diversity is good.
My human resources person asked me that question because she said that I don't look like most Americans. My ancestors have all been born in the U.S. before the Civil War. Most of them were here before the colonies became the U.S. I come mostly from Western Europe with most of those countrie represented but some Eastern European and some Native American. My Jewish ancestory is from German Jews. My friend who likes to guess ethnicity says I look Hungarian, but I know none of my ancestors who emmigrated directly from Hungary although that doesn't mean there weren't some and like I said people migrate.

[SmileyBoy]

28. DAMN, I voted other. I meant to click on Central Asia.

The Turks and the Finns both originally came from Kazakhstan. They're both Ural-Altaic. The Finns are the only "Scandanavians" who are NOT Indo-European.

[JohnKleeb]

30. Do you know if any of the Slavic groups came from Asia

In particular the Slovenes and the Slovaks, if so, oh my heh.

[SmileyBoy]

40. No, I think that's more west. But Slavic is not Indo-European.

I'm not exactly sure what the original roots of Slavs are, but I'm pretty sure that they're not Indo-European roots, like Germans, Dutch, English, etc.

A few example of Slavic-rooted ethnic groups I can think of are: Poles, Czechs, Slovejnians, Slovaks, Serbians, Russians, Ukranians, Romanians, Moldavians, Lithuanians, Bosnians, Albanians and Bulgarians.

Hungarians, Estonians and Latvians are NOT Slavic. they're Ural-Altaic, just like Turks, Finns, Turkmens, Kyrgyz, Tajiks and Uzbekhs. I think I'm mistaken on one of the Ural-Altaic examples above. Correct me if I'm wrong.;-)

[JohnKleeb]

43. Youre in college not me :) heh but yeah that makes sense

Thanks.

[starroute]

49. You're partly right and partly wrong

Slavs are Indo-Europeans. So are Latvians. Latvian and Lithuanian are the two surviving Baltic languages, and are pretty closely related to the Slavic languages. Both the Balts and the Slavs have been up near the Baltic Sea since the Neolithic -- it's only relatively recently (post-Roman Empire) that Slavs moved down into the Balkans.

Also, Albanian is Indo-European, but it isn't Slavic. It's a very ancient and mysterious language that isn't closely related to any of the other Indo-European languages.

Estonian is closely related to Finnish and more distantly to Hungarian. Those are Uralic languages. They used to be lumped in with Altaic languages like Turkish and Mongolian, but these days the word is that the Uralic and Altaic languages just share a lot of vocabulary due to borrowing but don't have a unique common ancestor.

[VOX]

32. Scotland, Wales, England...and a little bit of France.

Just learned about the French ancestors a couple of years ago. Very surprising.

:toast:

[Kamika]

34. The poll is sexist you need to redo it ALL!!

"None - my ancestors were the indigenous people of this continent before the white man"

White man! but it should say "before the white man and woman"

now redo the whole thing

[Snow]

50. Oh, I dunno - I think describing it as an invasion of 'white man'

would be pretty accurate, don't you?

[Kamika]

60. heh

I was just joking :)

[Snow]

66. I thought mebbe so -

but sometimes people around here are humour-challenged....

[geniph]

38. Galway, Eire

and not that long ago, either.

[JohnKleeb]

41. What generation are ya?

As I was saying thats where my family came from on my nana's side.

[FloridaJudy]

45. I'm a Mongrel

I'm what happens when the refugees of Eastern European pogroms meet the refugees of the Potato Famine, and fall insanely in love.

I'm a Mutt, and proud of it!

On the other hand, can you imagine being half Irish and half Jewish? Double your guilt or your money back...

[scucci]

47. HUH?

My best friends (a couple) are both half Jewish and half Irish and happen to be beautiful people inside and out. Please don't stereotype people.

[FloridaJudy]

70. That was *me* I was stereotyping...

On the other hand, I'm a genuine original, just like everybody else.

[JohnKleeb]

51. Welcome to what I got going

That is West meets East
I know of Irish/Italians, plenty of em, :D like Henry Hill from Goodfellas.

[Nikia]

53. Am I the only one that finds these terms offensive?

I am proud to be multiethnic. Humans are not bred like domestic animals. Genetic diversity is good. Migration throughout human time is common. I am of many nations. My ancestors did not only breed with others who came from their homeland. Doesn't mean that they were enlightened progressives? I will not call myself mutt or mongerel. In fact, a girl at my high school got away with beating up another girl because she called her that. Like her, I find these terms very offensive but I'm not going to beat you up. Culturually, I am American although sometimes I wished that I identified with a particuliar cultural outside of the U.S. I even tried some of them out before, trying to pass for someone with a little bit more ethnic blood, at a cultural festival or event.

[scucci]

64. Well said! Be who you are!

I'm an odd mix too but I know I am an American first. This categorizing does not help any of us. I'm with you and I hope it'll get better soon. You're not alone.

[Nikia]

67. Thanks

I am sorry that I did not see your reply before starting a new thread.

[Scurrilous]

46. Ireland and Canada.

Maternal Grandparents from County Waterford. Paternal Grandparents from Quebec.

[starroute]

52. Eastern European Jews all round

Russia, Poland, Hungary -- really not much difference from one of those places to another, despite the official political borders.

On the other hand, my hubby is half Russian and half came-over-on-the-Mayflower American (with a smidge of Pennsylvania German tossed in), so my kids are pretty well mongrelized.

[mlawson]

54. English, Scots, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Norman, Portuguese, and

now I know, Hungarian. I recently saw a 'pedigree' on Rootsweb.com which shows that I might be a direct descendant of Attila the Hun!!!!

I couldn't be more delighted. :evilgrin:

[Blue_Chill]

55. Damn not many hispanics here

Latino shout out!

[mvd]

56. I had to put "other"

England, Holland, and Italy.

[mvd]

57. The ones from Holland were French, but..

you asked where they came from before they came to the U.S.

[Nevernose]

58. Texas--

After almost a couple of hundred years, it doesn't really matter where your ancestors are from.

I beleive, though, that the first one was Scotch/Irish, fleeing here around 1710-1714, to Carolina before Texas, escaping from one of the many revolutions in the British Isles at that time (I'm not up on the history of the Augustan Age as much as I'd like to be, so I don't know the specifics of the various purges, wars, and revolutions of the era).

[CSI Willows]

61. <---Mutt

Irish, German, Hungarian, Turkish, etc....

[LWolf]

63. 3 known branches:

Britain, Germany, Native American.

[populistmom]

65. Mainly England and Sweden

My dad's side has been here a long time. One came on the Mayflower and most during pre-Revolutionary times from England. There's also a little Scottish thrown in the mix.
My mom's side is primarily Swedish and they came over in the 1860's I think. There's also a bit of English and German in there too.

[Rhiannon12866]

68. My dad's family came from the Republic of Ireland

while my mother's family came from Poland, but it was considered part of Russia at the time.:shrug:

[Bossy Monkey]

69. Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, England, Germany...

Are you serious? It's not for nothing this is called a melting pot. :)

[scarlet_owl]

71. Mexico, Ireland, France, Germany