What Are You?

[Buckhuntr]

Why not play along?

That answer is like being asked where you were born and answering "planet earth".

BTW since I picked on you answer I am Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English, at least so I am told.

Ok, I'm Scottish, English, French and Cherokee, that I know of. The French ancestor fought in the American Revolution, and my family goes back to at least the 1850's in the Georgia County in which I was born.

 

[Buckhuntr]

And I can be a natural smarta$$ tempered with lots of sarcasm at times, so I'm told.

Generally when I'm on a bad Scrabble losing streak, or am out of booze.

 

[martinirish]

Irish and French on my dad's side and French on my mom's side. My dad has traced back our Irish roots up to the mid-1800's where it starts to be a bit messed up. As for my mom's roots, our ancestors migrated from southern Normandy in 1654 to Quebec city, where I still live today.

I have a cousin who's dad is French, another who's dad is Greek, and my 12 years old uncle is 50% french canadian and 50% dominican (Rep. Dom.).Things went a bit south...:cross:

 

[KYB]

Take a guess


Irish only from what I understand.

 

[arturo7]

buzzed



7890

 

[scottyg354]

German, Scottish, Polish gypsy and Hungarian Gypsy, and I love American beer.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I bet I could count on 2 fingers how many black people there are on here.

I'm 3/4 Sicilian if that counts?

The rest of it is Polish, so I am 3/4 stubborn and 1/4 stubborn. We did one of those family tree things online a while back and there is a one-off Greek playing footsies with some Great Great Aunt, but I dont talk about that around my Grandmother...

 

[CreamyGoodness]

My home town (Southampton) Has a Mayflower memorial. Southampton was the last scheduled stop en route from Holland for the Mayflower. I missed the boat by a few hundred years though.

So you're the lot that didn't stop them before they infested us... ugh! I blame you.

I'm with Gregg Proops, I'd have rathered our first settlers be on an Italian party boat then the Mayflower. Back in the old country (a place I have never been with a national language I dont speak) they have like 1000 Saints and celebrate a day for every one of them. I would never have to go to work. I'd just walk around in red slacks, drinking strong coffee and pinching women I just met. I could DO THE HE!! OUT OF THAT!

 

[Goofynewfie]

German,french,welsh,italian,british,dutch,irish,scottish. Family was one of the founding families in lunenburg nova scotia, been in canada since 1753

 

[OhCrap]

Irish right back to great great great grandparents before that one drop of scottish to poison the water lol

 

[homebeerbrewer]

My last name came from Mexico, but I'm mostly German. My grandfather on my father's side was from Mexico, hence my last name, and my grandmother has English roots. On my mothers side, it's German. My mother does genealogy, and has our family traced back to the 1400s. Parts of my family tree originates in Ireland, but that's a very small percentage. My great grandfather and great grandmother on both sides of my mother moved to the US from Germany back in the 1800s.

 

[cheezydemon3]

I'm from Narnia

 

[IXVolt]

I'm from Narnia

1 part gouda
1 part starsan
2 part gargoyle

 

[thepartsmancometh]

Mostly Scottish and German. A little sprinkling of French, and some question marks.

 

[jmendez29]

This is what I know. My maternal grandmother and grandfather are pretty much all german. Their grandparents all came from the boat, so they've been around a while. My paternal grandfather came from Mexico, but his father immigrated from Spain to Guadalajara. My paternal grandmother is where it gets kinda sketchy. She didn't like to talk much about ancestry. I do know she has mostly german roots, but I'm pretty sure theres some Polish and Russian in there somewhere, too. I think part of the reason we're not so sure on it is that her father was adopted as a very young child.

So that makes me 1/4 Mexican/Spanish, and 3/4 German with some Polish and Russian sprinkled in for fun.

 

[mrbowenz]

I am a Canadian-Welshman, my mother was English and Welsh, born in Toronto and remained a citizen until she died in 2008, my father was a 2nd generation Welshman, I ate very plain food growing up, and knows all about the queen and all . Lots of aunts and uncles in Canada and England and Wales. Bowen was one of the first clans in Wales originally called Owen, Bowen meaning ...Born of...Owen. so there you go. Ironically I am heading to Wales next week and then brewing some beer in England.

 

[ChillWill]

Born in England, live in England, have English parents, grandparents and so on.

I'm a purebred... or boring, depends on which way you look at it.

 

[ChshreCat]

My great-grandfather from Finland had a childhood friend who was in the Russian military (Russia was occupying Finland at the time). The family had his friend over for dinner one evening and as he got up to go he told my great-grandfather "Thank you for dinner. I'll see you again tomorrow, but I'll be wearing my uniform." and then he left. Basically, he tipped the family off that the Russian army was coming to conscript him into service. Conscripted soldiers were kind of the cannon fodder, saving the Russian boys from some of the most dangerous service. His friend would have been shot if anyone found out he'd given a warning.

The family gathered what they could for him and my great-grandfather left in the night. His sister rowed him out into the bay and in the middle of the night he negotiated passage with a ship in exchange for work. He had one bag with him and he came here.

 

[passedpawn]

So if you move to Japan you become Japanese? Interesting.

If you are raised in the language, culture, history of a country, then that is what you "are". I'm American too.

I've never been interested enough in my ancestry to find out what the mix was. I do remember my mother telling me I was part Cherokee, but it was probably popular to say that in the 60's. I don't sunburn easily, and I drink a lot, so maybe there's some truth in it.

 

[dbrewski]

I used ancestry.com to trace my family back to Virginia in the early 1700's. Lost the trail from there. That was my mother's side. On my dad's side I only got back to the early 1800's. Our last name is Brewer. It's a fairly common name and from what I gather could be English, Norman, or German in origin.

 

[dfc]

Mostly English, but I've got a little Irish and Scottish as well.

 

[DoubleAught]

I'm Irish all the way down to the, well..you know

 

[dfc]

I'm Irish all the way down to the, well..you know

Love of potatoes?

 

[ChshreCat]

I'm Irish all the way down to the, well..you know

Shillelagh?

 

[dfc]

Shillelagh?

The Irish and their fashionable root canes...

 

[DoubleAught]

Shillelagh?

Ding Ding Ding

 

[tre9er]

Danish, German, Welsh, Barley.

 

[Hang Glider]

Nice Zombie pull, Scottyg354 - 3+ years !!!

 

[HawksBrewer]

I would have to claim pretty much all German ancestry or maybe call it Prussian. My family has done genealogy studies and from what they can tell everyone came from that region and settled in rural Iowa. Two sets came from within the modern day German borders. The other two sets were 1st Generation Americans.

I am actually 50% Prussian (German) and 50% English. Although you could almost call it 50% American because my mom's side of the family has been traced as far back as 1600 in Connecticut.

 

[IXVolt]

Danish, German, Welsh, Barley.

+1 on the Barley